ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors apply a micro-level sociological analysis to a conversation between the parents of two young girls, as they discuss their children’s and family’s consumption of media music. This is interpreted and discussed in terms of musical parenting. The authors thus demonstrate the micro-analytical use of the concept of musical gentrification, observing a series of micro-moments of gentrification in which cultural capital is accumulated and exchanged so as to ascribe higher value to lower-status music. The genre-specific distinctions between different music genres, as well as within popular music itself, turn out to have great significance for the parenting and the family’s music culture.
