Sociology and Music Education

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Sociology and Music Education -- 2 Research in the Sociology of Music Education: Some Introductory Concepts -- 3 Class, Power, Culture and the Music Curriculum -- 4 Music Education from the Perspective of System Theory -- 5 Unpopular Music: Beliefs and Behaviours towards Music in Education -- 6 The Sociological Critique of Curriculum Music in England: Is Radical Change Really Possible? -- 7 Ethnicity and Music Education: Sociological Dimensions -- 8 Towards a Sociological Perspective on Researching Children's Creative Music-Making Practices: An Exercise in Self-Consciousness -- 9 Gender Identity, Musical Experience and Schooling -- 10 Modernity, Identity and Musical Learning -- 11 Towards a Broader Conception of Creativity in the Music Classroom: A Case for using Engeström's Activity Theory as a Basis for Researching and Characterizing Group Music-Making Practices -- 12 Revealing Musical Learning in the Informal Field -- 13 Musikdidaktik and Sociology -- 14 Culture, Society and Music Education -- 15 Listening To Children: Voice, Agency and Ownership in School Musicking -- 16 Democracy, Social Exclusion and Music Education: Possibilities for Change -- Afterword -- Index