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SUMMARY:Class\, Control and Classical music: Musical practices and white m
 iddle-class identities among young people in the south of England - Dr Ann
 a Bull\, Senior Lecturer\, School of Education and Sociology\, University 
 of Portsmouth
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Extra-curricular classical music education continues to be an 
 important site for middle-class accumulation of cultural capital in the UK
  despite ongoing calls for its democratisation. Through an ethnography of 
 young people playing in classical music ensembles in the south of England\
 , this talk\, drawing on a recently-published book\, argues that classical
  music education’s domination by the white middle classes is bound up wi
 th its pedagogic practices and aesthetic values. Focusing on the embodied 
 practices of classical music and the particular forms of subjectivity that
  are associated with them\, this paper theorises an ‘articulation’ (Ha
 ll\, 1985) between white middle-class youth identities and the practices r
 equired to produce classical music’s powerful aesthetic ideal of precisi
 on\, accuracy and 'getting it right'.\n\n\n\nDr Anna Bull is a Senior Lect
 urer in the School of Education and Sociology at the University of Portsmo
 uth. Her research interests include class and gender inequalities in class
 ical music education and staff sexual misconduct in higher education. Anna
  has published in leading sociology and music education journals including
  The Sociological Review\, Action\, Criticism and Theory for Music Educati
 on\, and Sociological Research Online. Her monograph Class\, control\, and
  classical music\, looking at cultures of class and gender among young mid
 dle-class classical musicians in the south of England\, was published in 2
 019 with Oxford University Press. Anna is a co-founder and director of The
  1752 Group\, a research and lobby organisation working to address staff s
 exual misconduct in higher education.
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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