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Class, control, and classical music / Anna Bull

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Bull, Anna, 1980-
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Locating Classical Music in Culture -- ch. 2 Boundary-Drawing around the Proper: From the Victorians to the Present -- ch. 3 `Everyone Here Is Going to Have Bright Futures': Capitalizing on Musical Standard -- ch. 4 `Getting It Right' as an Affect of Self-Improvement -- ch. 5 Rehearsing Restraint: How the Body Is Transcended -- ch. 6 `Sometimes I Feel Like I'm His Dog': Gendered Power and the Ethics of Charismatic Authority -- ch. 7 `Instead of Destroying My Body I Have a Reason for Maintaining It': Young Women's Re-imagining of the Body through Singing Opera -- ch. 8 A Community-in-Sound: Constructing the Valued Self.
Summary
Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this text analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four 'articulations' or associations between the middle classes and classical music.
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9780190844387 (ebook)
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Specialized.
Note
Also issued in print: 2019.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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