A common conclusion drawn from publicly available Higher Education Statistics Agency
(HESA) data releases is that Higher Music Education (HME) courses have a predominantly …

Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and
socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic …

This chapter focuses on inconsistencies in UK government rhetoric regarding music and the
values accorded to it as articulated through policies on culture and higher education …

Arts advocacy in the US tends to cultivate state and philanthropic art support by emphasizing
art's potential to increase productivity and generate revenue in various ways. Even …

In this paper, I center the epistemic dimensions of musics and musicking to consider the
ways in which the band/orchestra/choir paradigm of music education prevalent in the US …

As Sara Farris and Catherine Rottenberg (2017, 5) have observed,«there has been a virtual
explosion of feminist discussion in both popular and mainstream media» in the Western …

Drawing together theoretical ideas from across the social sciences, Classifying Fashion,
Fashioning Class examines how the fashion-class association has developed and, using …

This article reflects on the “Hiddenness Index” we developed, implemented, and evaluated
for Concertgebouworkest Young (Young), the youth orchestra of the Dutch Royal …

This article draws on 18 qualitative in-depth interviews with female, early-career classical
musicians to investigate if, and if so how, recent discourse around the lack of diversity in the …

The article investigates the ways in which young musicians explored new (unfamiliar) social
landscapes and emotions during Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, through learning to listen …