History SmallReferencePools / Music

** People are also familiar with NuMetal (although it's often called "aggro-metal" or "rage rock", or sometimes even erroneously as "rap rock"), the dominating form of rock music that brought metal back into the mainstream during the 90s and early 00s. Which nu metal band people acknowledge largely depends on the person's age. If they're in their late 20s or older they'll name Music/{{KoRn}}, Music/LimpBizkit, or Music/{{Slipknot}}. If they're younger than that, they're more likely to refer to Music/LinkinPark, Music/PapaRoach, Music/SystemOfADown, or Music/{{Evanescence}}.

* Cellists? Pablo Casals.

** British boy bands? Obviously you mean Music/OneDirection. Apparently nobody's ever heard of Music/TakeThat or Music/TheWanted (who are mostly known for their so-called "[[CurbStompBattle rivalry]]" with One Direction).
** Australian boy bands? You mean 5 Seconds of Summer, even though they're more of a Pop Rock / PopPunk band than a straight-up boy band.

* White rappers? Music/{{Eminem}} will always come to mind first. The only other names likely to be brought up are the Music/BeastieBoys, Music/VanillaIce, Music/{{Macklemore}} (Ryan Lewis? Never heard of him), and Music/IggyAzalea, the latter being the only white female rapper.

[[folder: World Music]]
To the general public traditional folklore music that keeps a very identifiable exotic flavor will often be brought in association with a specific country. Therefore, despite the fact that other countries have also their own local jazz,r ock or pop bands, it will be the artists who perform traditional music, immediately recognizable as ''authentic to that country'', that will get the most recognition.

** All African music is performed on djembé drums, while black indigenous people do tribal dances. Also typical is chanting in canon, often set to images of a sunrise. More modern African music is Afrobeat.

* Ireland: Fiddle music, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance.

* White rappers? Eminem will always come to mind first. The only other names likely to be brought up are Vanilla Ice, Macklemore (Ryan Lewis? Never heard of him), and Iggy Azalea.

* Music/LanaDelRey and Music/{{Lorde}} are the only IndiePop artists in the business.

* When talking about Music/LinkinPark, most people will only refer to their NuMetal material from ''Music/HybridTheory'' and ''Music/{{Meteora}}''. More specifically the only songs they'll refer to are "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "In the End", and "Numb" (and maaaaaaybe "Breaking the Habit"). The only songs released after they switched their sound that get acknowledged are "What I've Done" and "New Divide" due to them being the theme songs of the [[Film/{{Transformers}} Bayformer]] films.

** People are also familiar with NuMetal, the dominating form of rock music that brought metal back into the mainstream during the 90s and early 00s. Which nu metal band people acknowledge largely depends on the person's age. If they're in their late 20s or older they'll name Music/{{KoRn}}, Music/LimpBizkit, or Music/{{Slipknot}}. If they're younger than that, they're more likely to refer to Music/LinkinPark or Music/{{Evanescence}}.

* When talking about Music/LinkinPark, most people will only refer to their NuMetal material from ''Music/HybridTheory'' and ''Music/{{Meteora}}''. More specifically the only songs they'll refer to are "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "In the End", and "Numb" (and maaaaaaybe "Breaking the Habit"). The only songs released after they switched their sound that get acknowledged are "What I've Done" and "New Divide" due to being the theme songs of the [[Film/{{Transformers}} Bayformer]] films.

** Increasingly, NuMetal band Music/LinkinPark is averting this treatment, but this is something of a double aversion in that the band relinquished the nu-metal label years ago.

* [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]:

* Creator/AaronCopland only did ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' and ''Rode''o (and then only the Hoe-Down part; y'know, "Beef: It's What's for Dinner". Dun dun dun.)

** All Indian music is played on a snakecharmer's flute, tablas or a sitar. Or lifted from a {{Bollywood}} musical.

* Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Eve, Music/NickiMinaj and Music/IggyAzalea are the only female rappers ever in music history.

* [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]

* [[Creator/JohannSebastianBach Bach]]

** ''[[Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata in D Minor]]'' (always played on a pipe organ) for vampires and other "creepy" things. Usually only the first few bars are played, and the not-so-creepy fugue is almost never played, though its association with the toccata means that sometimes, the fugue is used for "creepy" things. (Ironically, when a score was first put to the Creator/BelaLugosi ''{{Dracula}}'' movie, they used Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' instead.)

* [[GeorgeFredericHandel Händel]]

* Richard Wagner.

** Otherwise, the [[Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen opera cycle]] from which it comes appears only if "Viking" helmets are involved, usually ''without'' any of [[Creator/RichardWagner Wagner's]] music.

* The only piano piece ever written is Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; what happened to No. 1 is as much a mystery as the first four versions of Chanel perfume.
** Its the classical version of ''TheEntertainer'' (AKA ''TheSting'')

* Asked to name a composer, most wouldn't name Gioacchio Rossini or Giuseppe Verdi but it's a toss-up between the two who wrote the most tunes everybody recognises and can hum but can't identify. Rossini gave us the fast bit from ''William Tell'' aka the ''Series/TheLoneRanger'' music, the overtures from ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''The Thieving Magpie, La donna è mobile'' and others; Verdi the chorus of Hebrew slaves from ''Nabucco'', the brindisi from ''La Traviata'', the triumphal march from ''Aida'', and the ''Dies Irae'' from the ''Requiem''.

* Jazz musicians consist of Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/DukeEllington, Music/CharlieParker, and Music/MilesDavis. Jazz singers will be either Music/BillieHoliday or EllaFitzgerald.
* Blues musicians will be Music/RobertJohnson, Muddy Waters, JohnLeeHooker, or B.B. King.

* All musical scores are by Music/DannyElfman, Music/JohnWilliams, Music/EnnioMorricone, Music/BernardHerrmann, Nino Rota or Creator/HansZimmer. Granted, these guys have written a flipping TON of them, and often tutored all the others.

* Apparently, some people believe ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was Music/PinkFloyd's only album. For double bonus amusement, ask them to name a Pink Floyd ''song''. It will be from "The Wall". Roger Waters will always be referred to as Pink Floyd in these conversations.

** Increasingly, NuMetal band LinkinPark is averting this treatment, but this is something of a double aversion in that the band relinquished the nu-metal label years ago.

* Often parodies of rappers (or the image that MoralGuardians have at least) will be a GangstaRap-type rapper from the hood who raps about bitches, hos, and money. They will ignore less stereotypical (and usually less mainstream) rappers such as TalibKweli, Common, Music/KidCudi, or Music/KanyeWest.

* Music/JethroTull seems to be affected by this very trope. As the public perception of the band, largely based on what radio stations and the media display, often emphasizes their harder-rocking material ("Aqualung", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Locomotive Breath", "Teacher"), and they won a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album" for ''Crest Of A Knave'' in 1989, a more hard rock/heavy metal/classic rock crowd makes up much of the audience, who tends to have little patience for (or hoots and whistles loudly over, to bandleader Ian Anderson's annoyance) the group's more eclectic, softer, more delicate repertoire. Ian has often joked recently that a segment of Tull's audience sometimes sees Tull as "Music/DeepPurple with a flute". This has led Anderson to release his more experimental works, including a sequel to ''Thick As A Brick'', as a solo album with different musicians. His writing for Tull tends deliberately to be more hard-rocking and band-oriented, with more emphasis on Martin Barre's electric guitar playing.
* DavidBowie is another case of a long, diverse career that mainstream culture only scratches the surface of. The general public will recognize "Space Oddity", "Changes", "Rebel Rebel", "Fame", ""Heroes"", the aforementioned Queen collaboration "Under Pressure", "Let's Dance", and "Modern Love", largely due to frequent licensing for commercials and movie soundtracks. But that's only eight songs, recorded over 1969-1983, from a career that started in 1964 and encompasses (as of 2013's ''The Next Day'') 24 studio albums. Worse, several of them are [[IsntItIronic used without respect to their meanings]]. A good way to test a layperson's knowledge of Bowie is to ask them what Tin Machine was.[[labelnote:Answer]] A hard rock group he fronted over 1989-92 to escape the rut he felt trapped in post-''Let's Dance''.[[/labelnote]] This is less of an issue in his native U.K., though even there attention is paid mostly to his GlamRock period (1971-74). Bowie's three late-1970s "Berlin" albums -- ''Low'', ''"Heroes"'', and ''Lodger'' -- are considered his least accessible, yet have endured to become arguably his greatest work and the most influential. For most of the singles-buying public, though, he did nothing between "Golden Years" (1976) and "Let's Dance" (1983).

** Country music is often thought to be stuck in the 1950s and 1960s with acts such as HankWilliams, PatsyCline, BuckOwens, etc., and otherwise nothing but nasal-voiced singers in Nudie suits singing about drinkin' and cheatin'.

** WillieNelson and JohnnyCash apparently the only other country singers until the likes of Music/CarrieUnderwood, Music/TaylorSwift, and Music/LadyAntebellum came along.

*** Referenced by MasonWilliams (who himself qualifies for this trope, being the guy who wrote ''ClassicalGas'', the quintessential instrumental acoustic guitar song) in ''Them Banjo Pickers'':

To the general public traditional folklore music that keeps a very identifiable exotic flavor will often be brought in association with a specific country. Therefore, despite the fact that other countries have also their own local jazz or pop bands, it will be the artists who perform traditional music, immediately recognizable as ''authentic to that country'', that will get the most recognition.

** Pop music dancers? Music/ElvisPresley for his ''pelvis shaking''. Music/JamesBrown for all of his energy. Music/MichaelJackson for the ''moonwalk'' and everything else. All other pop dancers tend to be remembered only by their fans or the generation that grew up with them.

** Tap dancers? Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/GingerRogers and Creator/GeneKelly. If black tap dancers are remembered it will be The Nicholas Brothers or Bojangles.

** Ballet dancers will always be female. Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn will be the only ones most people remember. The only male one is Rudolf Nureyev.

* United States: The country produced many internationally popular genres, but most of the world associates it solely with country and jazz.

* Japan: Gong and/or gagayeum music.

* Africa: Music/FelaKuti.
** All African music is performed on djembé drums, while black indigenous people do tribal dances. More modern African music is Afrobeat.

** All French music will be played on an accordeon. Or can-can dancing in the Moulin Rouge.

** All Indian music is played on a snakecharmer's flute or a sitar. Or lifted from a {{Bollywood}} musical.

* United States: The country produced many internationally popular genres, but most of the world associates it most with country and jazz.

* Music/NickiMinaj and Music/IggyAzalea are the only female rappers ever in music history.

** Tap dancers? Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/GingerRogers and Creator/GeneKelly. If black tap dancers are remembered it will be The Nicholas Brothers.

** Rock drummers: [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] is the most famous one, but not considered the best.

** Rock guitarists? Music/JimiHendrix, first and foremost. Others that remain legendary are Music/ChuckBerry, Music/EricClapton, [[Music/TheRollingStones Keith Richards]], Music/VanHalen and [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]].

** Rock pianists? Music/FatsDomino, Music/JerryLeeLewis, Music/LittleRichard, Music/EltonJohn, Music/StevieWonder.

** UsefulNotes/BillClinton and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]] may be thrown in the mix too.

** The only music performed there a djembé drums, while Africans do tribal dances. More modern African music is Afrobeat.

* Australia: All music is didgeridoo music.
* Bali: All music is performed on a gamelan.

** All French music will be played on an accordeon.

** All Indian music is played on a snakecharmer's flute or a sitar.
* United States: The country produced many internationally popular genres, but most of the world associates it most with country and jazz.