Syllabus:

Ellefsen, L., Dyndahl, P., Jordhus-Lier, A., & Nielsen, S. G. (eds.) (2026). The double game of music. Paradoxes of power, status and class in music education. Manchester University Press. Open access here: https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526187253/9781526187253.xml

Introduction
Chapter 1: The game metaphor
One chapter of choice, chapters 2-9

Recommended readings:

Bourdieu, P. (1992/1996). The rules of art. Genesis and structure of the literary field. Chapter 2: The Author's Point of View. Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1986). The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education (pp. 241–258). Greenwood.

Dyndahl, P. (2021). Music education as qualification, socialisation and subjectification? In R. Wright, G. Johansen: Kanellopoulos, and P. Schmidt (Eds.), The Routledge handbook to sociology of music education (pp. 169–183). Routledge.