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While most sociological studies of musicians of contemporary popular music differentiate according to genre, whether implicitly or explicitly (“rock,” “rap,” “jazz,” etc.), this article proposes an alternative dividing line: how they learned to play. Based on a study of students at schools that teach musiques actuelles (modern/new music), focusing on three points relating to playing music, I will show that “school form”* tends to develop a formal relationship to music and its practice in musicians that strongly distinguishes them from musicians who have trained informally. It thus appears that students and self-taught musicians do not, so to speak, play music in the same way.(*“Forme scolaire” is a concept introduced by Guy Vincent to refer to education characterized by the creation of a separate universe for students that favours rules, the rational organization of time, and the multiplication and repetition of exercises that have no other function than to teach, and teach according to rules—in other words an aim in and of itself.) |
