Musical Mothering

Sally Savage is Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is a trained early childhood teacher and early childhood music specialist, and has worked in a range of educational settings throughout the UK and Australia, including running a music teaching business for early years children with their parents for 12 years. Her research interests focus on parental practices and music. 

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Musical motherhood in everyday Australian middle-class family life.- Chapter 2. Making time in motherhood to invest in children's music.- Chapter 3. Being musical - nature or nurture?.- Chapter 4. Intensive mothering, concerted cultivation and good mothering.- Chapter 5 - Mothers' moral responsibility to produce worthy children through socially valued dispositions and behaviours.- Chapter 6 - The emotional labour of musical motherhood.- Chapter 7 - Belonging and family connections across generations.- Conclusion - Articulating the relationship between music and women's mothering practices.