Masculinity, class and music education: boys performing middle-class masculinities through music

Offering a provocative sociological examination of masculinity, class and music education within the context of the classical musical world of choirboys, this book investigates how boys negotiate dominant gender-class discourses and the various pedagogies involved in producing middle-class masculinities during primary school and early years contexts.

Drawing on the theoretical resources of Bourdieu to develop the concept of 'musical habitus', the continued symbolic distinction of the choirboy is analysed in order to better understand how culture is simultaneously reproduced and evolving through music.