Musical Mothering
Intergenerational Strategies Amongst the Middle Classes
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Beschreibung
This book examines how gender and class discourses shape 'musical mothering' by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and education. Chapters detail the fundamental and functional role that mothers play in children's musical development alongside children's agency in influencing familial experiences. Music plays an essential role in the lives of mothers for themselves. Through interviews with mothers and grandmothers, as well as the author's own autobiographical reflections, the author offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to motherhood and music within Australian culture.
Sally Savage is Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is a trained early childhood teacher and early childhood music specialist, and has worked in a range of educational settings throughout the UK and Australia, including running a music teaching business for early years children with their parents for 12 years. Her research interests focus on parental practices and music.
This book examines how gender and class discourses shape 'musical mothering' by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and education. Chapters detail the fundamental and functional role that mothers play in children's musical development alongside children's agency in influencing familial experiences. Music plays an essential role in the lives of mothers for themselves. Through interviews with mothers and grandmothers, as well as the author's own autobiographical reflections, the author offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to motherhood and music within Australian culture.
Focuses on the role, influence, and value of music for family members and particularly for mothers Makes women's emotional, physical, and cognitive labor in the process of musically (and otherwise) nurturing themselves and their children visible Explores the construction of musical futures over generations for five mothers and five grandmothers
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Sally Savage
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