Class, Control, and Classical Music, by Anna Bull

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Book Review| August 01 2021 Class, Control, and Classical Music, by Anna Bull Class, Control, and Classical Music, by AnnaBull. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxx, 232 pp. Juliet Hess Juliet Hess JULIET HESS is Associate Professor of Music Education at Michigan State University, having previously taught public school music in Toronto. Her book Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education (Routledge, 2019) explores activism, critical pedagogy, and music education. Her research interests include anti-oppression education, trauma-informed pedagogy, musical activism, and ethics in world music study. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (2): 449–454. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.2.449 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Juliet Hess; Class, Control, and Classical Music, by Anna Bull. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2021; 74 (2): 449–454. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.2.449 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search In Class, Control, and Classical Music, Anna Bull poses a key question to classical music stakeholders: “how are musical institutions, practices, and aesthetics shaped by wider conditions of economic inequality, and in what ways might music enable and entrench such inequalities or work against them?” (p. 1) Through ethnography and careful historical analysis, she interrogates youth classical music programs and explores how they participate in class reproduction, the formation of middle-class selfhood, and classed boundary-drawing. As a music education scholar, I appreciate the considerable extent to which Bull’s observations, which predominantly target music education, draw upon literature outside the field to produce a robust call to action. She purposefully draws... © 2021 by the American Musicological Society. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2021American Musicological Society You do not currently have access to this content.