Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession (eBook, ePUB)

New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How is the classical music industry responding to the challenges of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and other social justice movements? Is increasing attention to equity and diversity in the classical music profession over recent years leading to systemic change? In this book, scholars, activists and musicians from countries across Europe and North America analyze inequalities in the classical music profession and introduce strategies for making change. Exploring racism, class and gender inequalities, disability representation, "authenticity", changing the canon, and neoliberalism, the book brings together analyses from academics alongside contributions from musicians and industry leaders working in the classical music industry who reflect on issues of diversity and share insights and best practices. Themes of the book include institutional legacies and possibilities for change; racial, classed and gendered inequalities and marginalised voices; and strategies for activism, whether reflective practices, informal networks, or larger organisations leading change. The book also discusses questions such as whether musical change is necessary for social change in classical music, and how activists can acknowledge structural inequalities whilst holding on to the possibility of change. Opening up the interdisciplinary field of "classical music studies," this book lays the groundwork for empirically-founded, theoretically-informed, and practice-based approaches to tackling inequalities in the classical music profession. As such, it will be a significant point of reference for musicians, students, classical music administrators, policy-makers, teachers, and academics -- and anyone else who wants to make classical music more inclusive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197601242
• Artikelnr.: 67438305

Autorenporträt

Anna Bull is Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at the University of York. A former professional pianist and cellist, her research interests include class and gender inequalities in classical music education and staff sexual misconduct in higher education. Her monograph Class, Control, and Classical Music (2019) was joint winner of the 2020 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Award. Anna is also a co-founder and director of The 1752 Group, a research and campaigning organisation working to address staff sexual misconduct in higher education. She has worked with music education charity Sound Connections on youth voice in classical music education, publishing a toolkit for teachers in 2022. Christina Scharff is Reader in Gender, Media, and Culture at King's College London. She is author and co-editor of several books, including Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession (2018). Dr. Scharff's research on the classical music profession, funded by the ESRC and British Academy, has contributed to our understanding of inequalities in the cultural and creative industries, the subjective experiences of precarious work, and the psychic life of neoliberalism. Dr. Scharff's other area of expertise is in engagements with feminism, building on her first monograph Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World (2012). Laudan Nooshin is Professor of Music at City, University London, having previously taught at Brunel University and Goldsmiths University of London, where she gained her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1996. Laudan's research interests include creative processes in Iranian music, music and youth culture in Iran, music and gender, urban music studies, and music in Iranian cinema. She is a co-founder and currently co-Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies Network and she is also a Vice-President of the Royal Musical Association in which role she leads the RMA EDI Working Group.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Anna Bull and Christina Scharff
* PART I THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
* 1: Class and Gender Inequalities in the Recruitment of Classical
Musicians: Reflections on the Case of Italian Music Conservatoires
* Clementina Casula
* 2: The Role of Music Conservatoires in the Making of Classical Music
Careers
* Rainer Prokop and Rosa Reitsamer
* 3: Social Inclusion in Contemporary British Conservatoires: Alumni
Perspectives
* Jennie Joy Porton
* 4: Inside Looking In: Strategies to Counteract Misconduct in Artistic
Teaching within Higher Music Education
* David-Emil Wickström
* PART II PROBLEMATIZING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
* 5: (Un)settling Institutional Hegemony: Challenges of Diversity
Strategies in the "Western" Classical Music Sector
* Kristina Kolbe
* 6: "To Share Music with Children": The LA Phil and Neoliberal
Philanthropy in Inglewood
* Mina Yang
* 7: A Critical Perspective on Diversity and Inclusion in US Classical
Music Discourse
* Marianna Ritchey
* 8: Staging a Loose Canon: Scripture, Tradition, and Embedded
Exclusion in Opera Production
* Caitlin Vincent
* 9: Disability Representation in Opera
* Charlotte Armstrong
* PART III MARGINALIZED VOICES
* 10: Gender and Class: An Account of a Female Percussionist in the
Classical Music Industry
* Beth Higham-Edwards
* 11: Making Space for Disability and Music to Interact: An Interview
with Composer Oliver Vibrans
* Oliver Vibrans
* 12: Black on the Podium: An Interview with Conductor Brandon Keith
Brown
* Brandon Keith Brown
* 13: Creolization, Mixing, and Plurality: An Interview with Composer
Hannah Kendall
* Hannah Kendall
* PART IV RACIAL INEQUALITIES
* 14: The New "Yellow Peril" in "Western" European Symphony Orchestras
* Maiko Kawabata
* 15: Irreconcilable Senses of Belonging: Transnational Japanese
Artists in the Quest for Authenticity in the World of Classical Music
* Beata M. Kowalczyk
* 16: [Re- ]training Classical Musicians Toward Polymusicality and
Hybridization: An Interview with Jon Silpayamanant
* Jon Silpayamanant
* 17: Inclusion and Diversity in the Early Music Scene in the US: A
Conversation with Patricia Ann Neely
* Patricia Ann Neely
* 18: On Leaving Classical Music: An Interview with Anthony Gray
* Anthony Gray
* PART V ACTIVISM STARTING WITH THE SELF
* 19: (Dis)orient Yourself!: Disrupting White Ontologies in Classical
Music
* Eleanor Ryan
* 20: Everyday Bridges: A View from the Field
* Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey
* 21: Illuminating Women's Music: Exploring the Canonic Ethos behind
the Illuminate Women's Music Concert Series
* Angela Elizabeth Slater
* 22: Changing Classical Music from the Inside: An Interview with Chi-
chi Nwanoku
* Chi-chi Nwanoku
* PART VI ACTIVISM: BUILDING NETWORKS FOR CHANGE
* 23: (Un)Silencing Blacktivism in Opera: An Interview with Quodesia
Johnson about the Letter to the Opera Field from Black Administrators
* Antonio C. Cuyler
* 24: Reflecting on the Work of Gender Relations in New Music:
Institutional Critique and Activist Strategies
* Brandon Farnsworth and Rosanna Lovell
* 25: Addressing Inequalities in the Music Industry before, during, and
after COVID- 19: The Campaigning Work of the UK's Independent Society
of Musicians
* Deborah Annetts, Vick Bain, Chris Collins, Vinota Karunasaagarar, and
Dr. Kathryn Williams
* 26: "A Community of 30,000 Musicians behind You": An Interview with
John Shortell from the UK Musicians' Union
* John Shortell
* Afterword
* Gillian Moore
* Discussion Questions for Teachers, Students, Reading Groups, and
Industry Leaders
* References
* Index