Boys' music? School context and middle-school boys' musical choices

Music Education Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-230

  Bennetts, Kathleen Scott ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

middle school boys; musical participation; school context; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879410663     PISSN: 14613808     EISSN: 14699893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2012.759550     Document Type: Article

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