Discussing the symbolic order: child and youth orchestras in Argentina

Abstract

The present paper seeks to describe and reflect upon the "Andres Chazarreta" Social Program (National Ministry of Culture) and the Child and Youth Orchestra Project (Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires) which are both state managed. It also focuses specifically on the coordinating team’s perspectives. I suggest that although these initiatives involve different cultural policy designs due to their underlying concepts, they both contribute to destabilizing a symbolic construct that promotes relations of inequality and exclusion.