The correlation between high school students demographical qualifications and music genres that they listen

The aim of this study is to determine the correlation between high school students? demographical qualifications and music genres that they listen. The universe of the study is the high schools in Ankara which are connected to National Education Ministry, the sample is 634 students from 7 high schools from various districts which are randomly chosen from each genres of high school. First chapter of the questionary that used in the study, contains 33 questions that enable to determine demographical qualifications of the students, second chapter contains 27 questions that enable to determine music genres that they listen. At the prepared questionary firstly dataset was researched whether it answered for mormal dispersion with Kolmogorov-Smirnovtesti. Therefore elements have normal dispersion, for comparing two groups Independent Sample Test had been used, for comparing more than two groups One-Way ANOVA had been used. For determining whether groups are different from each other Scheffe Test was applied, tests for comparing groups had been searched with Levene Test, variance homogeneity assumption. For the analysis in the study, IBM SPSS 20.0 package programme had been used. In accordance with the result of the study, when general grades of musical genres were analysed, it is seen that the most favourite music genre is pop music. It is seen that there are differences on musical choices of students who have different demographical qualifications. When choice grade of music genres are compared with age, sex, the high school that they study, the education degree of the family, social life, doing part time job, reading boks and ability playing any musical instruments, their expectations and life perspectives, it was determined that there were significant differences. Key Words: Demographical, Music Genres, Listening music, High school students.