Music, gender, education / Lucy Green.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.

Introduction -- Musical meaning and women's musical practice. Affirming femininity : women singing, women enabling ; From affirmation to interruption : women playing instruments ; Threatening femininity : women composing/improvising ; Towards a model of gendered musical meaning and experience -- Gendered musical meaning in contemporary education. Affirming femininity in the music classroom ; From affirmation to interruption of femininity in the music classroom ; Threatening femininity in the music classroom ; The music curriculum and the possibilities for intervention.

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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, the author 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, the book uses ethnographic methods to convey the everyday interactions and experiences of girls, boys, and their teachers. The author also explores 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.

English.

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