Sociology and Music Education

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Sociology and music education, Ruth Wright
• Research in the sociology of music education: some introductory concepts, Lucy Green
• Class, power, culture and the music curriculum, Ruth Wright and Brian Davies
• Music education from the perspective of system theory, Geir Johansen
• Unpopular music: beliefs and behaviours towards music in education, Alexandra Lamont and Karl Maton
• The sociological critique of curriculum music in England: is radical change really possible?, Chris Philpott
• Ethnicity and music education: sociological dimensions, David G. Hebert
• Towards a sociological perspective on researching children's creative music-making practices: an exercise in self-consciousness, Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos
• Gender identity, musical experience and schooling, Lucy Green
• Modernity, identity and musical learning, Geir Johansen
• Towards a broader conception of creativity in the music classroom: a case for using EngestrAm's activity theory as a basis for researching and characterizing group music-making practices, Pamela Burnard and Betty Anne Younker
• Revealing musical learning in the informal field, Sidsel Karlsen
• Musikdidaktik and sociology, Geir Johansen
• Culture, society and music education, Ruth Wright and John Finney
• Listening to children: voice, agency and ownership in school musicking, Felicity Laurence
• Democracy, social exclusion and music education: possibilities for change, Ruth Wright
• Afterword, Christopher Small
• Index.