Nation and Gender in Higher Classical Music Education: Intersectional Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Music Education)

This book asks how nation and gender shapes higher classical music education in Europe today.Building on transnational research in three European higher music education institutions, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, the book analyses policy, interviews, teaching situations and concerts in classical music performance programs. With a starting point in feminist intersectional and postcolonial theory the book focuses on how nationalised and gendered ideas and materialities influence higher classical music education in the borderlands of Eastern and Western Europe.The analysis of the intersection of nation and gender has never been studied closely in higher classical music education before.The book’s unique contribution includes theorising musical families as place-based ideas of both musical and musician ideals, and how these ideas benefit some students more than others.The six empirical ch