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Legg, Robert – Curriculum Journal, 2012
This article applies Bourdieu's notion of "cultural capital" to historical, documentary research which investigates the construction of a scholastic canon within England's A-level music examinations. A digest of the ways in which this canon evolved between 1951 and 1986 is presented in support of the idea that examiners' responses to…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Social Mobility