• 1. Introduction: music visualised; 2. Music, socio-politics, ideologies of male sexuality and power; 3. Music, sexism and female domesticity; 4. Music education as social praxis; 5. Music and the body: dance, power, submission; 6. The male at music: praxis, representation and the problem of identity; 7. The female at music: praxis, representation and the problematic of identity; 8. Music in domestic space: domination, compensation, and the family; 9. Epilogue: the social and ideological relation of music to privatised space.

'Refreshingly original … Leppert's work is distinguished not only for its originality, but for its establishment of an important and unchallengable place for music in comparative studies … will prove at least as valuable for art historians as for sociomusicologists.' The Musical Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: music visualised; 2. Music, socio-politics, ideologies of male sexuality and power; 3. Music, sexism and female domesticity; 4. Music education as social praxis; 5. Music and the body: dance, power, submission; 6. The male at music: praxis, representation and the problem of identity; 7. The female at music: praxis, representation and the problematic of identity; 8. Music in domestic space: domination, compensation, and the family; 9. Epilogue: the social and ideological relation of music to privatised space.

'Refreshingly original … Leppert's work is distinguished not only for its originality, but for its establishment of an important and unchallengable place for music in comparative studies … will prove at least as valuable for art historians as for sociomusicologists.' The Musical Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: music visualised; 2. Music, socio-politics, ideologies of male sexuality and power; 3. Music, sexism and female domesticity; 4. Music education as social praxis; 5. Music and the body: dance, power, submission; 6. The male at music: praxis, representation and the problem of identity; 7. The female at music: praxis, representation and the problematic of identity; 8. Music in domestic space: domination, compensation, and the family; 9. Epilogue: the social and ideological relation of music to privatised space.

'Refreshingly original … Leppert's work is distinguished not only for its originality, but for its establishment of an important and unchallengable place for music in comparative studies … will prove at least as valuable for art historians as for sociomusicologists.' The Musical Quarterly