Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth

Name: Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth
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ISBN: 9780819568038

ISBN-10: 0819568031

ISBN-13: 9780819568038

Edition: 2006

Authors: Susan Boynton, Roe-Min Kok

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Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth is an immensely rich contribution to childhood studies and shows how children are socialized into the musical life of their communities. Children have rarely been central to musicological or anthropological studies, and childhood was once dismissed as too early in the human developmental process to be of significant interest. In a variety of historical, social, and cultural frameworks, these 10 essays address subjects as diverse as choirboys in early modern Seville, the griot culture of West Africa, and Jewish youth at summer camp. The essays reveal childhood as a time all its own, a time when individual identities are forged through music, and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 6/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Susan Boynton is an assistant professor of music at Columbia University. Roe-Min Kok is an assistant professor of music at McGill University.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Ritual Performance


Introduction




The Sociomusical Role of Child Oblates at the Abbey of Cluny in the Eleventh Century




Imagining the Sacred Body: Choirboys, Their Voices, and Corpus Christi in Early Modern Seville




Silent Music: The Apache Transformation of a Girl to a Woman




Identity Formation


Introduction




Ravel's Child: Magic and Moral Development




Music for a Postcolonial Child: Theorizing Malaysian Memories




Telling Histories: Memory, Childhood, and the Construction of Modern Griot Identity




Destined for Greatness One Song at a Time: Coming of Age as a Korean P'ansori Performer




Musical Socialization


Introduction




"We Are Changing the World!" New German Folk Songs for the Free German Youth (1950)




Defining the "Children of the Nation": Three Stages of Children's Music in Modern Japan




"And the Youth Shall See Visions": Songleading, Summer Camps, and Identity among Reform Jewish Teenagers



Afterword



Bibliography


About the Authors


Index