Abstract
The present study aimed to elicit stereotypes about personality characteristics of music
genres including those specific to South Africa. Participants were 941 undergraduate
students at a South African university. They responded to a number of surveys on their
music genre preferences and personality traits. The results indicated that participants hold
distinct stereotypes about the personality traits of different music fans which mainly
overlap with research from other countries but also differ. This research supports prior
findings that intergroup stereotyping occurs as an intergroup phenomenon based on
musical preference.