Class, Control, And Classical Music

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? This book outlines a new approach for a socio-cultural analysis of classical music, asking how musical institutions, practices, and aesthetics are shaped by conditions of economic inequality, and how music entrenches such inequalities or works against them. Through an ethnography of youth classical music ensembles and drawing on the author's own background as a classical musician, it examines how young people learn unspoken rules of gendered control and describes how middle-class practices-boundary drawing around protected spaces and reproducing their privilege through education-can be traced within the everyday spaces of classical music. Book jacket.

• | Author: Anna Bull
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0197646069
• | ISBN-13: 9780197646069