Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives

ISBN-10
1602561648
ISBN-13
9781602561649
Series
Songs in Their Heads
Category
Music
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
1998
Author
Patricia Shehan Campbell

Description

This book explores the musical interest and needs of children in their daily lives. Based upon their expressed thoughts and actual "musicking" behaviors, this text examines the songs they sing, the rythyms they make, and the roles that music plays for them. Blending standard education field experiences with ethnographic techniques, Dr. Campbell demonstrates how music is personally and socially meaningful to children and what values they place on particular musical styles, songs, and functions. He explores musical behaviors in various contextual settings, and presents in notated and narrative f.

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