Songs in Their Heads

Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives
2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-538252-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Cambell will be presenting talks in Brazil (October 2010), and also in Ireland, Germany, Australia, and possibly Germany next academic year, probably on the subject of children's musical culture.
First edition widely acknowledged as the pioneering publication on children's musical practices
New edition includes new case studies and updates on new media
Bridges the disciplines of music education, ethnomusicology, and folklore
Blends standard education field experiences with ethnomusicological techniques

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, 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, at the Toys and More Store. She documents in narrative forms some of the "songs in their heads", balancing music learned with music "made", and intentional, purposeful music with natural music behavior.

From age three to tween-age, children are particularized by gender race, ethnicity, and class, and their soundscapes are described for the contexts, functions, and meanings they make of music in their lives. Treading through the individual cases and conversations is the image of the "universal child" children's culture that transcends localities, separates them from adults, and defines them as their own community of shared beliefs and practices.

Songs in Their Heads is a vivid and engaging book that brides the disciplines of music education, ethnomusicology, and folklore. Designed as a text or supplemental text in a variety of music education methods courses, as well as a reference for music specialists and classroom teachers, this book will also appeal to parents interested in understand and enhancing music making in their own children.

Zielgruppe

Music education majors (undergraduate, graduate), music teachers, education majors, students of thnomusicology, folklore, sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Patricia

Campbell, Patricia Shehan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpädagogik, Gesangspädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Musical Children
1.: In Music: Children at Musical Play
Narrative Tales
The Tales
Reflections
2.: On Music: Conversations with Children
A Flexible System
The Conversations
Reflections
3.: For Children: Prospects for Their Musical Education
Who They Musically Are
All That They Can Musically Be
Musical Mosaics
Afterword
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
References

Über Autor(innen)

Campbell, Patricia Shehan
Patricia Shehan Campbell is the author of numerous books on music for children, a teacher, and an active musician. Her training in education and ethnomusicology has led her to the development of curriculum in music and cultural studies, and has helped shaped her unique approach to understanding children and their musical capacities. In addition to her post as Donald E. Peterson Professor at the University of Washington, she has lectured on world music pedagogy and children's musical involvement throughout North America, in much of Europe and Asia, in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Patricia Shehan Campbell, Professor of Music Education, University of Washington

Patricia Shehan Campbell is the author of numerous books on music for children, a teacher, and an active musician. Her training in education and ethnomusicology has led her to the development of curriculum in music and cultural studies, and has helped shaped her unique approach to understanding children and their musical capacities. In addition to her post as Donald E. Peterson Professor at the University of Washington, she has lectured on world music pedagogy and children's musical involvement throughout North America, in much of Europe and Asia, in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.