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Informal learning of popular music: gender monoglossia and heteroglossia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2020

Alison Butler ,
Kelly Bylica  and
Ruth Wright
Alison Butler*
Affiliation:
Don Wright Faculty of Music, Talbot College, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Kelly Bylica
Affiliation:
Don Wright Faculty of Music, Talbot College, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Ruth Wright
Affiliation:
Don Wright Faculty of Music, Talbot College, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
*
Corresponding author. Email: abutle45@uwo.ca
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Abstract

This paper reports on a small-scale study in an elementary school in Southern Ontario, Canada. The study investigated relationships between students’ perceptions and practices of gender in popular music education with particular attention given to communication, instruments and technology and development of freedoms and constraints. The findings present a more opaque picture than previous research, suggesting that students frequently transgress binary gendered patterns of practice and perception in this particular field. Gender monoglossia and heteroglossia provide a useful explanatory framework for analysis, indicating that further application of these concepts to issues in popular music education might be most fruitful.

Keywords

Genderinformal learningpopular music educationmonoglossiaheteroglossia
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 43 - 57
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© Cambridge University Press 2020

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