Cultural omnivorousness and musical gentrification. An outline of a sociological framework and its applications for music education research
Original version
Dyndahl, P., Karlsen, S., Skårberg, O. S. & Nielsen, S. G. (2014). Cultural omnivorousness and musical gentrification: An outline of a sociological framework and its applications for music education research. Action, criticism, & theory for music education, 13(1), 40-69.Abstract
In this article, we aim to develop a theoretical model to understand what we refer
to as ‘musical gentrification’ and to explore how this model might be applied to and
inform music education research. We start from a Bourdieusian point of view,
elaborating on the connections between social class and cultural capital, and then
move on to discuss more recent contributions concerning cultural omnivorousness
and musical gentrification. Furthermore, we show, through describing an ongoing
research project, how the notion of musical gentrification can be utilised in music
education empirical research, and we also discuss its possible applications in future
efforts of mapping and understanding the present-day complexity of the culturalmusical
landscape.
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This is an Open Access scientific, peer-reviewed article originally published in the journal Action, criticism, & theory for music education. The article can be accessed at the following location: http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/DyndahlKarlsenSkårbergNielsen13_1.pdf