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Rocking in the Midwest: Transmitting and Performing Social Class in Rock Music Education

Projektbeschreibung

Wie in privater Rockmusikpädagogik soziale Klasse vermittelt wird

Das EU-finanzierte Projekt ClassRockED untersucht in einer innovativen Studie, wie durch Rockmusikunterricht in privaten, gewinnorientierten Musikschulen Klassenideale und -bewusstsein vermittelt werden. Im Gegensatz zur stark wachsenden Fachliteratur zu popmusikalischer Bildung gab es bisher nur wenige Forschungsarbeiten über private oder gewinnorientierte Musikschulen, obwohl diese eigentlich weltweit am häufigsten vertreten sind. Durchgeführt wird die Studie mit einer Kombination aus persönlichen und internetbasierten Methoden und einem multidisziplinären Ansatz. ClassRockED nutzt dazu Instrumente und Perspektiven aus Anthropologie und Ethnomusikologie, Kultursoziologie, Ethnografie, Gestenforschung, Musiksoziologie und Musikpädagogik. Ziel ist es, ein tiefgreifendes Verständnis davon zu erlangen, wie bestimmte Bedeutungen, Symbole und Ideale von Klasse beim Unterrichten von Musik umgesetzt und weitergegeben werden.

Ziel

‘Rocking in the Midwest: Transmitting and Performing Social Class in Rock Music Education’ is an innovative and timely project. It seeks to examine the ways in which ideals and markers of social class are transmitted, negotiated and performed within a unique setting – that of a rock music school in the US Midwest. By examining a traditionally white working-class and often patriarchal musical genre within a decidedly middle-class context – a private school, whose costs and institutional structure present a barrier to access for lower-income students – it seeks to shine a light on the shifting production of class within a region whose working-class-ness has at times been considered both problematic and emblematic of conflicted class, race and gender relations in the post-industrial United States.

This research understands music education and performance as a unique site of the construction and negotiation of class consciousness and identities. It will consider how class-coded meanings and narratives are attached to visual and sonic symbols within rock education and performance. These symbols include musical instruments, sounds, language, gestures and ideals of musicianship and performance. It will examine how these symbols are transmitted, embodied and performed within the context of the school’s rehearsals, lessons and showcase performances, with a particular eye to the role of the gendered body in processes of teaching, learning, listening and music-making. This project takes a unique and innovative approach, marrying anthropological and ethnomusicological methods and modes of investigation with theoretical and analytical perspectives from cultural sociology and gesture studies, drawing as well on existing knowledge and research within music education, sociology of music and the emerging field of popular music education, in order to inform a truly interdisciplinary interrogation of social class and music education in the twenty-first century American Midwest.

Koordinator

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 196 590,72
Adresse
Glasnevin
9 Dublin
Irland

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Region
Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Gesamtkosten
€ 196 590,72