"First published 1998 by Manchester University Press"--Title page
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.
Contents
Setting the scene : musical ideology and musical sociology -- Inherent musical meaning -- Delineated musical meaning -- Musical experience -- Education, ideology and social reproduction : the role of the music classroom -- Education and opportunity -- What counts as music -- Musical autonomy and musical fetishism -- Maintaining aesthetic difference -- Music as object -- Towards a redefinition of meaning.