Les élèves des écoles de « musiques actuelles »

“Music school is behind me”: A case of “failed” musical socialisation

“…Translation : Maggie Jones 1The persistent over-representation of the middle and upper classes in France's conservatories 1 calls into question these establishments' mode of musical socialisation, which seems to favour affluent students over those from working-class backgrounds 2 . As is also the case at school 3 , this academic mode of musical socialisation is based on a scriptural and theoretical relationship to knowledge 4 , one that, though unevenly distributed, remains dominant in society today. Thus, students less endowed with academic dispositions are more likely to develop heterodox appropriations of the academic content offered to them 5 .…”

Historicising the question of socialisation into “popular music”

“…), as contemporary research has shown. 56 The trend towards the institutionalisation of popular music intensified at the turn of the century and, for many ordinary musicians, teaching seems to have been an increasingly important part of the range of tasks that made up their job. 57 This is clearly the case in Switzerland, where the domestic live music market is fairly small, but where the level of amateur musical practice is very high (17% compared with 8% in Europe) and there is still a significant job market in music education (just over a third of musicians in Romandy earn most of their income from teaching 58 ).…”