This work is based on empirical data from a research about music in Youth and Adult Education (Educação de Jovens e Adultos - EJA). It was carried out on a case study in a public school in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Its results show that the musical learning process is achieved through an interaction permeated by some conflicts, as well as by exchanges among students of different generations. This article focuses on women participating in this research, considering their educational and musical background before, as well as during the EJA experience. The paper's aim is to reflect upon schooling, including the music education of these women, whose search for education as children or as youths found exclusion, interruptions and a lack of access to school. However, the attainment of education through EJA came after. Associated with this debate related to music and education in EJA, it has approached the generational subject, based on studies in the field of social science and humanities.
women and music in EJA; music in EJA; EJA and music education