Contribution to Book
"A Perfect Mix?" Navigating Choice and Scarcity in a New York City Music Program
Sociological Thinking in Music Education: International Intersections
(2022)
Abstract
Using the conceptual dichotomy of agency and structure Frank Martignetti examines the impact of New York City’s school choice and restructuring policies on music students’ access to music education. What opportunity gaps or barriers to music learning did the policy create? How did students at one uniquely positioned public high school exercise agency to gain access to a “choice” school? The rhetoric of choice promises increased access, but, as demonstrated by Martignetti’s research, these effects are mixed at best.
Keywords
- sociology of education,
- music education,
- urban education,
- education policy
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter January 28, 2022
Editor
Carol Frierson-Campbell, Clare Hall, Sean Robert Powell, and Guillermo Rosabal-Coto
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780197600962
Publisher Statement
Sociological Thinking in Music Education presents new ideas about music teaching and learning as important social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural ways of being. At the book's heart is the intersection between theory and practice where readers gain glimpses of intriguing social phenomena as lived through music learning and teaching. The vital roles played by music and music education in various societies around the world are illustrated through pivotal intersections between music education and sociology: community, schooling, and issues of decolonization.
In this book, emerging as well as established scholars mobilize the links between applied sociology, music, education, and music education in ways that intersect the scholarly and the personal. These interdisciplinary vantage points fulfil the book's overarching aim to move beyond mere descriptions of what is, by analyzing how social inequalities and inequities, conflict and control, and power can be understood in and through music teaching and learning at both individual and collective levels. The result is not only encountering new ideas regarding the social construction of music education practices in specific places, but also seeing and hearing familiar ones in fresh ways. Digital assets enable readers to meet the authors and the points of their inquiry via various audiovisual media, including videos, a documentary music film, and multi-lingual video précis for each chapter in English as well as in each author's language of origin.
Citation Information
Martignetti, F. (2022). “A Perfect Mix? Navigating Choice and Scarcity in a New York
City Music Program.” In C. Frierson-Campbell, C. Hall, S. Powell, G.Rosabal-Coto (Eds.),
Sociological Thinking in Music Education: International Intersections. New York: Oxford University
Press.