This article analyses teacher-student interactions in music classes at a state public school in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. Grounded in Genetic Epistemology, DeVries’s (1997) contributions on cooperative and coercive interactions and studies on music cognition, it presents a qualitative case study based on participant observation, field notes and semi-structured interviews with 27 second-year upper-secondary students and a teacher with a degree in Music. The results indicate that the teacher–student interaction investigated is ambivalent: students recognise the teacher as accessible, communicative and motivating, especially at the affective level; however, the interactions remain marked by intellectual asymmetries, heteronomous moral regulations and the centrality of teacher authority, with little evidence of stable cooperation and shared construction of musical knowledge.
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