Date of Award
Spring 2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Foundations in Education
Department
College of Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Research
First Advisor
Kenneth Saltman, PhD
Abstract
This paper examines the ways in which leaders of community music programs entangle these organizations, either consciously or subconsciously, in various forms of democracy, citizenship and social reproduction/transformation. I begin by exploring Bourdieu’s notions of cultural capital and habitus as well as Michael Apple’s hidden curriculum in order to illustrate the ways in which community education programs contribute to the process of social reproduction. I then examine two community music programs in Chicago, Illinois, the Citizen Musician Initiative and the Old Town School of Folk Music, exploring the ability of these programs (and others like them) to function as forces of radical, democratic change through a dismantling of traditionally held notions of cultural capital. To conclude, I discuss recommendations for further action and research.
Recommended Citation
Yenney-Henderson, Caolfionn, "With distinction: Examining the relevance of Bourdieu’s cultural capital in relation to community music programs and social transformation" (2012). College of Education Theses and Dissertations. 22.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/soe_etd/22