Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?
Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain …

In this article, we aim to develop a theoretical model to understand what we refer to as
'musical gentrification'and to explore how this model might be applied to and inform music …

Music education takes place in socio-political systems that institutionalise cultural hegemony
and social stratification through perpetuating symbolically violent practices and unconscious …

Die qualitativ-empirische Studie beschäftigt sich mit der arabesk-Rezeption von
Jugendlichen in Deutschland-ein unter türkischsprachigen Schülerinnen und Schülern recht …

Contemporary literature suggests that music education is stuck in a cycle of cultural
reproduction in which music teachers and curriculum writers value Western art music more …

As a result of a documented decline in student engagement with curricular music in recent
decades, which has called into question traditional approaches to music learning and …

Social realism's' curriculum problem'is that it has been unable to go beyond making the
case'for knowledge'in order to convincingly state what knowledge should make up the …

Background Music education, in recent years, has begun a paradigm shift (Seddon 2004).
The reasons for this are multifaceted, but among the most central is the push in the …

Our analysis of study opportunities related to learning an instrument or voice as a main
subject has shown that music teacher training in Germany (still) has hegemonic structures …

The need for redress in South African education includes calls for the decolonisation of the
curriculum. In music education, this could imply a straight forward swap of content, replacing …