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Bourdieu and the Sociology of Music Education

About the Author

Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests include diverse creativities, digital technologies, intercultural arts, music education and industry. Her books include Musical Creativities in Practice, Creativities in Higher Music Education, Music Education with Digital Technologies and Teaching Music Creatively. She is Co-convenor of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Creativity in Education SIG and Convenor of the Creativities in Intercultural Arts Network. Ylva Hofvander Trulsson is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University, Sweden. She was visiting scholar / postdoc at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK (2012-2014). Her research focuses on perspectives on class formation in relation to parents' choices, concerted cultivation, migration and social mobility. Ylva is also visiting scholar at Hedmark University College, Norway, (2013-2016) in association with the research project 'Musical gentrification and socio-cultural diversities'. Ylva has been recognized nationally and internationally for her theory-driven research of music education, minorities and social mobility. Johan Soderman is Associate Professor in Music Education at Malmo University and Reader in Music Education at Lund University, Sweden. He has conducted research concerned with hip-hop cultural studies, and education. Between 2009 and 2011, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Music and Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. His research interests are the Scandinavian educational tradition called 'folkbildning', academisation processes of youth music and social mobilisation/marginalisation in post-industrial society.