Re: England - land without music?

Sharon Michalove, Editor, H-Albion (mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 22 May 1995 11:27:08 -0600

Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 02:20:01 +1000 (EST)
From: Ann Verna Beedell <A.Beedell@hum.gu.edu.au>

I think the question of gender is very important. In Elizabethan times
music was part of a gentleman's education. In the 18th and 19c it was
not. John Locke made some very influential remarks about the uselessness
of music in male education, indeed, about the dangers of music,(Some
Thoughts concerning Education, 1693) which seem to have been taken to
heart.

Ann Beedell
Humanities
Griffith University, Q. Australia 4111
A.Beedell@hum.gu.edu.au