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The Academisation of Popular Music in Higher Music Education: The Case of Norway
Dyndahl, Petter; Karlsen, Sidsel; Nielsen, Siw Graabraek; Skårberg, Odd
Music Education Research, v19 n4 p438-454 2017
With a hundred years (1912-2012) of Norwegian master's and doctoral theses written within the field of music as a backdrop, this article reports from an extensive study of the academisation of popular music in higher music education and research in Norway. Theoretically, the study builds on the sociology of culture and education in the tradition of Bourdieu and some of his successors, and its methodological design is that of a comprehensive survey of the entire corpus of academic theses produced within the Norwegian music field. On this basis, the authors examine what forms of popular music have been included and excluded respectively, how this aesthetic and cultural expansion has found its legitimate scholarly expression, and which structural forces seem to govern the processes of academisation of popular music in the Norwegian context. The results show that popular music to a large extent has been successfully academised, but also that this process has led to some limitations of academic openness as well as the emergence of new power hierarchies.
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Musicians, Social Class, Music Therapy, Higher Education, College Faculty, Cultural Capital, Statistical Analysis, Surveys
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway (Oslo)
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