¿Who Talks About the Music that is Played in Schools? Constructed significations

Abstract

This article was developed from the Master’s thesis called "¿Who talks about the music that is played in schools? The construction of significations by the subjects from the educational community, from the musical repertoire that circulates in primary schools and their musical praxis", to fulfill the formation of the Masters in Educational Research with a mention in SocioAnthropology, from the Center of Advanced Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales) of the National University of Córdoba (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba).

The concern about the significations that the subjects attribute to music in an educational ambit has accompanied us for a long time in our teaching path. Over time, we built some questions: How is the school ́s repertoire composed? What senses were constructed from the repertoire? (group and/or ethnic identities, nationalities, collectivities, nation state, and so on). What conceptions are brought to play by the social subjects to construct significations through the circulating repertoire? Which practices or musical praxis are developed in the school? We believe these questions constitute our problem. We recovered the voices of many of the subjects that belong to the educational community and we also collected the repertoire that circulates and searched to understand the contexts.