Bull

Class Control and Classical Music

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ISBN 13:: 9780197646069
author:: Bull
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Oxford University Press, USA
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2022
Pages:: 264
Dimensions:: 23.8 x 15.9 x 1.5 centimetres (0
Genre:: Music, General, Musik,
Condition:: New
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Classical music has long been associated with the white middle classes. However, this connection remains underexplored in academic circles. This book offers a new approach to understanding classical music by examining its relationship with social class and economic inequality. Anna Bull draws on her own experience as a musician to explore how musical institutions, practices, and aesthetics are shaped by wider conditions of economic inequality. Through a richly detailed ethnography, the author locates classical music within one culture - middle-class English youth - and examines how young people learn the unspoken rules of this culture through their involvement in youth orchestra and choir rehearsals.

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