Music, gender, education / Lucy Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Lucy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and music.

Women musicians.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Music--Instruction and study.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on the role of education in relation to music and gender. Invoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction musical meanings, Lucy Green shows how women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced, hand in hand, through history. Covering a wide range of music, including classical, jazz and popular styles, Dr Green uses ethnographic methods to convey the everyday interactions and experiences of girls, boys, and their teachers. She views the contemporary school music classroom as a microcosm of the wider society, and reveals the participation of music education in the continued production and reproduction of gendered musical practices and meanings.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Affirming femininity: women singing, women enabling

3. From affirmation to interruption: women playing instruments

4. Threatening femininity: women composing/improvising

5. Towards a model of gendered musical meaning and experience

6. Affirming femininity in the music classroom

7. From affirmation to interruption of femininity in the music classroom

8. Threatening femininity in the music classroom

9. The music curriculum and the possibilities for intervention.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-58545-4

0-511-00148-7