Local authority music services have held a central place in the UK’s music education landscape since the end of the Second World War. Nonetheless, the provision of these services has always been a non-statutory responsibility, and local levels of opportunity have varied in response to prevailing economic and political climates, along with broader developments in educational policy. The first half of this article focuses on the implications of two key policies enacted during the 1990s. Both were linked to perceived changes in the profiles of young people who engaged with music service tuition. The latter half presents an ecological study of practical implications of the second policy – the Music Standards Fund – on primary-aged children’s take-up of and persistence with the tuition in one English local authority. At both area and school levels, the children’s engagement cohered with various socio-economic and contextual factors. This coherence is considered from the perspectives of Connell’s ‘neo-liberal parent’ and related Bourdieusian-influenced theories. The conclusion offers implications from the implementation of the policy in the contemporary era of Music Education Hubs, the successor organisations to local authority music services, and the schools these Hubs serve.

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地方政府的工具音乐学费，作为新自由主义父母投资的一种形式：来自一个特殊的，独特的案例研究的发现

自第二次世界大战结束以来，地方当局的音乐服务一直在英国的音乐教育领域中占据中心地位。尽管如此，提供这些服务始终是一项非法定责任，并且随着当前的经济和政治气候以及教育政策的广泛发展，当地的机会水平也有所不同。本文的前半部分着重于1990年代颁布的两项关键政策的含义。两者都与从事音乐服务学费的年轻人的感知变化有关。后半部分对第二项政策-音乐标准基金-在一个英国地方当局接受和坚持学费的第二个政策的实践意义进行了生态学研究。在地区和学校级别，儿童的参与与各种社会经济和背景因素相协调。从康奈尔的“新自由主义父母”和相关的布迪厄斯主义影响理论的角度考虑了这种连贯性。结论提供了在当代音乐教育中心的政策实施，地方权威音乐服务的后继组织以及这些中心服务的学校中的启示。