El Sistema as a Bourgeois Social Project: Class, Gender, and Victorian Values

Autor/in	Bull, Anna
Titel	El Sistema as a Bourgeois Social Project: Class, Gender, and Victorian Values
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 15 (2016) 1, S.120-153 (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Social Class; Gender Differences; Sexual Identity; Music Education; Foreign Countries; Classical Music; Moral Values; Females; Educational History; Social Status; Futures (of Society); Working Class; Social Action; Program Descriptions; Teaching Methods; Human Body; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Musikerziehung; Ausland; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Weibliches Geschlecht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sozialer Status; Future; Society; Zukunft; Arbeiterklasse; Soziales Handeln; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Menschlicher Körper; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article asks why classical music in the UK, which is consumed and practiced by the middle and upper classes, is being used as a social action program for working-class children in British music education schemes inspired by El Sistema. Through exploring the discourse of the social benefits of classical music in the late nineteenth century, a particular classed and gendered morality in relation to music can be traced that has parallels today. This paper argues, first, that classical music education fits with a middle-class disposition by rewarding investment in a future self; second, that it cultivates an ideal of hard work as a moral project; and third, that classical music allows young women to perform a "respectable" female identity. UK Sistema-inspired programs, in drawing on Victorian ideas of the "civilising influence" of culture, symbolise hope for the continuation of the bourgeois social project into the future. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01