ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the material and research project on which the volume is based. Further, it explains and motivates the overarching question: how do ideas about nation and gender shape higher classical music education today? The aim of the volume is to present and discuss how higher classical music education shapes belonging in terms of nation and gender. In the first introductory chapter, the definitions and histories of higher classical music education is presented, along with the methods, material and research contexts for the book. Further, the main theoretical approach in feminist intersectional thinking on nation and gender is detailed, and an outline of the book is given that briefly summarises all chapters.
