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Book Synopsis
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of acquisition by subjects or institutions of higher social status, thereby playing an important role in social elevation, mobility and distinction. The phenomenon of musical gentrification is approached from a variety of angles: theoretically, methodologically and with reference to a number of key issues in popular music, from class, gender and ethnicity to cultural consumption, activism, hegemony and musical agency. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, empirical examples and ethnographic data, this is a valuable study for scholars and researchers of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Musical Gentrification and Socio-Cultural Diversities: An Analytical Approach Towards Popular Music Expansion in Egalitarian Societies
Petter Dyndahl, Sidsel Karlsen and Ruth Wright
Chapter 2: Musical Gentrification: Strategy for Social Positioning in Late Modern Culture
Petter Dyndahl
Chapter 3: Exploring the Phenomenon of Musical Gentrification: Methods and Methodologies
Sidsel Karlsen, Mariko Hara, Stian Vestby, Petter Dyndahl, Siw Graabræk Nielsen and Odd Skårberg
Chapter 4: Musical Gentrification and the (Un)Democratisation of Culture: Symbolic Violence in Country Music Discourse
Stian Vestby
Chapter 5: Musical Gentrification, Parenting and Children’s Media Music
Ingeborg Lunde Vestad and Petter Dyndahl
Chapter 6: Gentrification, Hegemony, Activism and Anarchy: How These Concepts May Inform the Field of Higher Popular Music Education
Ruth Wright
Chapter 7: Changing Rhythms, Ideas and Status in Jazz: The Case of the Norwegian Jazz Forum in the 1960s
Odd Skårberg and Sidsel Karlsen
Chapter 8: Musical Gentrification and ‘Genderfication’ in Higher Music Education
Siw Graabræk Nielsen
Chapter 9: Musical Agency Meets Musical Gentrification: Exploring the Workings of Hegemonic Power in (Popular) Music Academisation
Sidsel Karlsen
Chapter 10: Enclosure and Abjection in American School Music
Vincent C. Bates
Chapter 11: Musical Pathways: Connecting, Re-Connecting and Dis-Connecting
Mariko Hara
Afterword: Taste and Distinction After Bourdieu
Nick Prior
