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Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music

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Masculinity, Class and Music Education

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This book is about the interaction between masculinity, class and music education through the vantage point of choirboys’ musical life stories. This introductory chapter brings the reader into the book’s terrain of sociology, music and education. The main questions explored in this book are articulated, which are about how the specific kind of masculinity of this group of boys is ‘made’ through their experiences in learning to become a choirboy. The scene is set for the book’s investigation of the relationship between young boys’ masculinity and social class and how music can do the social and cultural work of constructing masculinities in early life.

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    Surveying the membership of Australian state-funded professional orchestras (Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Western Australian Symphony, Queensland Symphony and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras) by counting the named staff on their websites reveals that approximately 55% of musicians, including conductors, are male. This does not take into account casual staff. Gender differences are most pronounced according to orchestral sections with brass, percussion and double bass sections heavily dominated by males and string instruments, particularly violins, strongly dominated by females.

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Hall, C. (2018). Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music. In: Masculinity, Class and Music Education. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50255-1_1

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