The Double Game of Music
Paradoxes of Power, Status and Class in Music Education
Will be published approx. on 16. December 2025
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-5261-8724-6 (ISBN)
Description
The double game of music imagines music education as a series of games - each with its own rules, play currency and players - to challenge readers to rethink the significance of music and musical upbringing in shaping social structures.
Drawing on their own empirical research and a wide range of international contributions, the authors unravel the intertwining of social positioning and power hierarchies with players beliefs in the pure values and virtues of their games, whether these relate to parenting, children's play, schooling, academic pursuits, musical leisure activities or the television and music industries.
In a world where music is often celebrated as an important tool for inclusion and democratisation, this groundbreaking book offers a timely critique, revealing complexities and contradictions that tend to be overlooked by teachers, researchers, politicians and others interested in the powers of music education. -- .
Drawing on their own empirical research and a wide range of international contributions, the authors unravel the intertwining of social positioning and power hierarchies with players beliefs in the pure values and virtues of their games, whether these relate to parenting, children's play, schooling, academic pursuits, musical leisure activities or the television and music industries.
In a world where music is often celebrated as an important tool for inclusion and democratisation, this groundbreaking book offers a timely critique, revealing complexities and contradictions that tend to be overlooked by teachers, researchers, politicians and others interested in the powers of music education. -- .
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-8724-6 (9781526187246)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Professor Live Weider Ellefsen, University of Inland Norway
Professor Petter Dyndahl, University of Inland Norway
Professor Siw Graabraek Nielsen, The Norwegian Academy of Music
Associate Professor Anne Jordhus-Lier, University of Inland Norway -- .
Professor Petter Dyndahl, University of Inland Norway
Professor Siw Graabraek Nielsen, The Norwegian Academy of Music
Associate Professor Anne Jordhus-Lier, University of Inland Norway -- .
Content
Introduction: the double game of music
Petter Dyndahl, Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
1 The game metaphor
Live Weider Ellefsen, Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
2 Democracy and inclusion: school(ed) music
Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Kari Marie Manum and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
3 Social class and musical gentrification
Petter Dyndahl, Sidsel Karlsen and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
4 Classification struggles: music education and genre
Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Ingeborg Lunde
5 Musical parenting and the child as investment
Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Ingeborg Lunde and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
6 Children's games of music: play as investment
Ingeborg Lunde and Live Weider Ellefsen
7 Public broadcasting: investments in children and childed television music
Ingeborg Lunde, Odd Skarberg and Petter Dyndahl
8 Talent and talentification
Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Friederike Merkelbach
9 The double games of musical upbringing and schooling in the welfare state
Petter Dyndahl, Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
Bibliography
Index -- .
Petter Dyndahl, Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
1 The game metaphor
Live Weider Ellefsen, Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
2 Democracy and inclusion: school(ed) music
Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Kari Marie Manum and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
3 Social class and musical gentrification
Petter Dyndahl, Sidsel Karlsen and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
4 Classification struggles: music education and genre
Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Ingeborg Lunde
5 Musical parenting and the child as investment
Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Ingeborg Lunde and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
6 Children's games of music: play as investment
Ingeborg Lunde and Live Weider Ellefsen
7 Public broadcasting: investments in children and childed television music
Ingeborg Lunde, Odd Skarberg and Petter Dyndahl
8 Talent and talentification
Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Friederike Merkelbach
9 The double games of musical upbringing and schooling in the welfare state
Petter Dyndahl, Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier and Siw Graabraek Nielsen
Bibliography
Index -- .