Double Game of Music - Paradoxes of Power, Status and Class in Music Education

The book uses the metaphor of 'double games' to critically analyse how music education, as a series of games, is played. Examining the intertwinement of social power with players' belief in the purity of their game, and of material with symbolic economies, the authors unravel the complex social dynamics of musical upbringing and socialisation.

About the author

Professor Live Weider Ellefsen, University of Inland Norway
Professor Petter Dyndahl, University of Inland Norway
Professor Siw Graabræk Nielsen, The Norwegian Academy of Music
Associate Professor Anne Jordhus-Lier, University of Inland Norway

Product details

• Authors: Live Weider Dyndahl Ellefsen
• Assisted by: Petter Dyndahl (Editor), Live Weider Ellefsen (Editor), Anne Jordhus-Lier (Editor), Siw Graabræk Nielsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.12.2025
• EAN: 9781526187246
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-8724-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Music and Society
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Norway, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Philosophy & theory of education, Theory of music & musicology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Educational: Music, Educational systems and structures