Music, Gender, Education

How women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced through history.

Lucy Green (Author)

9780521555227, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 March 1997

296 pages, 1 table
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

'Green's new book provides the first major marriage between a theoretical approach to gender and an experiential study of secondary education … she persuades us to think hard about the roles that girls and boys are going to fill in music when they become adults.' Music and Letters

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.

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I. Musical Meaning and Women's Musical Practice: 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
Part II. Gendered Musical Meaning in Contemporary Education: 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
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]