Every Good Boy Does Fine takes its title from the mnemonic taught to beginner music students in English-speaking countries to memorize the lines of the treble clef staff: E, G, B, D, F. The phrase carries the quiet authority of things learned so early they feel like nature — what Bourdieu called habitus: dispositions absorbed in childhood, before conscious choice begins, reproducing social hierarchies precisely because they feel like instinct.

The British version says the good boy deserves favour. One is an outcome; the other an entitlement. That the same five notes produce two such different ideological statements — absorbed by children on either side of the Atlantic without knowing another version exists — is precisely what the exhibition is interested in. What else was learned this way, and what does it cost?

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