Class, control, and classical music

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Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Through a richly detailed ethnography, this book contributes to this ongoing debate with a timely and provocative intervention, locating classical music within one of the cultures that produces it--middle-class English youth -and foregrounds classical music as bodily practice of control and restraint.

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Full title :Class, control, and classical music / Anna Bull.

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Publication Date:©2019

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780190844387, 0190844388, 9780190844363, 0190844361
oclc:on1100449537
LC Classification:ML3916
Dewey Decimal:781.68

Locating classical music in culture -- Boundary-drawing around the proper : from the Victorians to the present -- "Everyone here is going to have bright future" : capitalizing on musical standard -- "Getting it right" as an affect of self-improvement -- Rehearsing restraint : how the body is transcended -- "Sometimes I feel like I'm his dog" : gendered power and the ethics of charismatic authority -- "Instead of destroying my body I have a reason for maintaining it" : young women's re-imagining of the body through singing opera -- A community-in-sound : constructing the valued self.