Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music

Research Papers in Education

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-217

  Welch, Graham ^a   Papageorgi, Ioulia ^a   Haddon, Liz ^b   Creecha, A ^a   Morton, Frances ^c   Bézena, C De ^d   Duffy, Celia ^c   Potter, John ^b   Whyton, Tony ^e   Himonides, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d LEEDS COLLEGE OF MUSIC   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Higher education; Learning; Music; Musical genre

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349550522     PISSN: 02671522     EISSN: 14701146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02671520802048752     Document Type: Article

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