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Dietrich, Elise M. – Hispania, 2017
In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian white middle class embraced the samba music written by working-class blacks as a source of authentic national culture. Cultural mediators, or individuals that bridged sociocultural spheres and negotiated the terms in which work was produced and circulated, were essential to samba's mainstream acceptance. This…
Descriptors: Social Change, Music, Musicians, Whites
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Windle, Joel; Maire, Quentin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
The global middle class (GMC) is a theoretical construct that seeks to globalise a set of attributes identified in studies of school choice in the global north, and to a lesser extent in developing nations in Asia. As theorised by Ball a mobile middle class with cosmopolitan sensibilities drives international education options in global cities.…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries