Un siècle d'enseignement musical à l'école primaire - article ; n°1 ; vol.55, pg 3-15

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1997 - Volume 55 - Numéro 1 - Pages 3-15
A Century of Music Education in Primary School, Michèle Alten.
At a time when arts education for young people is listed as a national priority, this retrospective reminder shows that primary school, since Jules Ferry, has wavered between a rather unsinging citizen tradition except for the laborious learning of a few patriotic verses and a more melodious cultural tradition whose necessity never convinced the teachers. Only the Popular Front and the Vichy regime manifested a particular interest in school music. Theoretically obligatory but usually out of reach, a source of conflicts between musicians and pedagogues, here is the uninspired history of a discipline that doesn't sound good, of an education with troubling accents.
13 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.