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You Are What You Listen To: Young People's Stereotypes about Music Fans

University of Cambridge, pjr39{at}cam.ac.uk

Jennifer A. McDonald

University of Cambridge

Julian A. Oldmeadow

University of York

Research suggests that young people use music to express themselves and to make claims about their identities. The current work considered the possible consequences of using music in this way. Using a sample of 80 British young adults, we aimed to replicate and extend previous research on the stereotypes that young people have about fans of various musical genres. It was hypothesized that individuals attribute similar psychological characteristics and social categories to fans of certain styles of music and that those distinct associations are generalizable. Results indicated that judges agreed on both the psychological (personality, personal qualities and values) and social (ethnicity and social class) characteristics of music fans, that the content of the music-genre stereotypes varied between genres, and that the stereotypes are geographically robust. The implications of this work for group processes and intergroup relations are discussed.

Key Words: genre • music preference • social identity • stereotypes

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol. 12, No. 3, 329-344 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209102845


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