Music Gender Education

This is the first book to focus on the role of education in relation to music and gender. Invoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction of musical meaning Lucy Green shows how women''s musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced hand-in-hand through history. Dr. Green views the contemporary school music classroom as a microcosm of the wider society and reveals the participation of music education in the continued production and reproduction of gendered musical practices and meanings.