The Mozart Effect: Music, Success, and Socioeconomic Status in an American Classroom
Location
Science Center, A254
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-27-2012 1:30 PM
End Date
4-27-2012 2:30 PM
Abstract
Though music is considered by many to be important for students’ success, music is often one of the first programs to be cut in public schools during hard economic times. My fieldwork in the eighth-grade band class at Oberlin Middle School examines how students think about music, and suggests that music education can positively affect their academic and social lives. These effects are tempered, however, by the fact that these programs are more accessible to those of higher socioeconomic class.
Recommended Citation
Rappaport, Netta, "The Mozart Effect: Music, Success, and Socioeconomic Status in an American Classroom" (04/27/12). Senior Symposium. 41.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2012/presentations/41
Major
Anthropology
Advisor(s)
Baron Pineda, Anthropology
Project Mentor(s)
Baron Pineda, Anthropology
April 2012
The Mozart Effect: Music, Success, and Socioeconomic Status in an American Classroom
Science Center, A254
Though music is considered by many to be important for students’ success, music is often one of the first programs to be cut in public schools during hard economic times. My fieldwork in the eighth-grade band class at Oberlin Middle School examines how students think about music, and suggests that music education can positively affect their academic and social lives. These effects are tempered, however, by the fact that these programs are more accessible to those of higher socioeconomic class.
Notes
Session I, Panel 3: Causes of Despair: Delight, and Ambivalence in American Education
Moderator: Ana Cara, Professor of Hispanic Studies