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

Name: Songs in Their Heads Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives
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ISBN: 9780195111019

ISBN-10: 019511101X

ISBN-13: 9780195111019

Edition: 1998

Authors: Patricia Shehan Campbell

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This book explores the meaning and value of music in children's lives, based upon their expressed thoughts and actual "musicking" behaviors in school and at play. Blending standard education field experiences with ethnomusicological techniques, Patricia Campbell demonstrates how music is personally and socially meaningful to children and what values they place on particular musical styles, songs, and functions. She explores musical behaviors in various contextual settings, and presents in notated narrative forms some of the "songs in their heads," balancing music learned with music "made," and intentional, purposeful music with natural music behavior. Songs in Their Heads is a vivid and…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction: Musical Children



In Music: Children at Musical Play


Narrative Tales


The Tales


The Horace Mann Schoolyard


The Lakeshore Zebras


The Rundale School Cafeteria


Riders of the C-Bus


Mrs. Bedford's Music Class: At the Periphery


The Toys and More Store


Reflections



On Music: Conversations with Children


A Flexible System


The Conversations


Michael


Darryl


George


Carrie


Ramnad


Lisa


Ramona


James


Beth


Manuel


Lateesha


Alan


Anna


Tuyen


Jonathan


Reflections



For Children: Prospects for Their Musical Education


Who They Musically Are


The Music in Them


What Music Means to Children


Music: Good for What?


Learning, Enculturation, and the Schools


The Mission of School Music


Children's Big and Little Cultures


A Diversity of Musicking


Their Music


All That They Can Musically Be


The Personal Side of Music


The Social-Familial Sides of Music


The Functional Side of Music


Self-Study of Music


Musical Choices


More of a Musical Education


Musical Mosaics


Afterword


Appendix 1


Appendix 2


Notes


References