The Big C Word
Why are we so silent on questions of class in classical music? Composer, sound-artist and researcher James Hazel investigates why classical music and the high arts are so inhospitable to people from the working-class in Australia – a country that considers itself a classless society where everyone has “a fair go”.
As a composer from a working-class background, I am deeply interested in how forms of socioeconomic stratification and disadvantage affect the ways in which certain groups gain access to music and arts culture. My own music education was anything from straight-forward, however. Due to my mother’s passion...
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