Class, Control, and Classical Music C

by Anna Bull

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain underexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recent years. In order to answer this question, this book outlines a new approach for a socio-cultural analysis of classical music, asking how musical institutions, practices, and aesthetics are shaped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190844353
• ISBN13: 9780190844356
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"