Gender and Composition in the Music Technology Classroom

by Victoria Armstrong and Dr Victoria Armstrong

Book Overview

The use of computers and associated compositional software in music education is frequently decontextualized from cultural and social relationships, thereby ignoring the fact that new technologies are used and developed within existing social spaces that are always already delineated along gender lines. Armstrong suggests these gender-technology relations have a profound effect on the ways adolescents compose music as well as how gendered identities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274577
• ISBN13: 9781138274570
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"