ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how classical musicians negotiate ongoing class, racial, and gender inequalities. It shows that they are more open to discussing classed exclusions and that racial, and in particular gender imbalances, are talked about much more ambivalently. The chapter draws on several theoretical frameworks, such as theories of individualisation, postfeminism, and neoliberalism, to make sense of the disarticulation of inequalities. Given that the silencing of inequalities has been observed in a range of work settings, the findings presented here may have implications that reach beyond the classical music industry to workplace dynamics more generally.
