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Songs in their heads : music and its meaning in children's lives
- Title
- Songs in their heads : music and its meaning in children's lives / Patricia Shehan Campbell.
- Author
- Campbell, Patricia Shehan.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 307 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Songs in Their Heads is a vivid and engaging book that bridges the disciplines of music education, ethnomusicology, and folklore. This revised and expanded edition includes additional case studies, updated illustrative material, and a new section exploring the relationship between children's musical practices and current technological advances. Designed as a text or supplemental text for a variety of music education methods courses, as well as a reference for music specialists and classroom teachers, this book can also help parents understand and enhance their own children's music making"--
- "The book explores the meaning and value of music in children's lives, based upon their expressed thoughts and actual music-making behaviors in school and at play. Blending standard education field experiences with ethnomusicological techniques, 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--in the outdoor garden of the Lakeshore Zebras' preschool, in Mr. Roberts' fifth grade classroom, on a school bus, at home with the Anderson family, in the Rundale School cafeteria, and at the Toys and More Store"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- </strong>Introduction: Musical Children</strong> -- Part I In Music: Children at Musical Play -- Narrative Tales -- The Tales -- Reflections -- Part II On Music: Conversations with Children -- A Flexible System -- The Conversations -- Reflections -- Part III For Children: Prospects for Their Musical Education -- Who They Musically Are -- All That They Can Musically Be -- Musical Mosaics -- </strong>Afterword</strong> -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- References.
- Call Number
- JME 12-448
- ISBN
- 9780195382525
- 0195382528
- 9780195382518 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2010039730
- OCLC
- 2010039730
- Author
- Campbell, Patricia Shehan.
- Title
- Songs in their heads : music and its meaning in children's lives / Patricia Shehan Campbell.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 12-448