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Print Price: $58.50

Format:
Paperback
656 pp.
50 line drawings & 46 halftones, 165 mm x 241 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190206413

Publication date:
September 2014

Imprint: OUP US


The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures

Patricia Shehan Campbell and Trevor Wiggins

Series : Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical lives of children in a variety of cultures, and their role as both preservers and innovators of music. Drawing on a wide array of fields from ethnomusicology and folklore to education and developmental psychology, the chapters presented in this handbook provide windows into the musical enculturation, education, and training of children, and the ways in which they learn, express, invent, and preserve music.

Offering an understanding of the nature, structures, and styles of music preferred and used by children from toddlerhood through childhood and into adolescence, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is an important step forward in the study of children and music.

Readership : Suitable for music educators and students of music education, scholars and students of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

About the Contributors
Patricia Shehan Campbell & Trevor Wiggins: Introduction
Engagements with Culture: Socialization & Identity
(Re)Making cultures for/by children/Updating tradition
1. Sonja Downing: Girls Experiencing Gamelan Education and Cultural Politics in Bali
2. Robert Pitzer: Youth Music At The Yakama Nation Tribal School
3. Judah Cohen: Reform Jewish Songleading and the Flexible Practices of Jewish-American Youth
4. Andrea Emberly: Venda Children's Musical Culture in Limpopo, South Africa
5. Noriko Manabe: Songs of Japanese Schoolchildren During World War II
6. Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza: Girlhood Songs, Musical Tales and Games as Strategies for Socialization into Adult Gender among the Baganda of Uganda
7. Beatriz Ilari: Musical Cultures of Girls in the Brazilian Amazon
8. Magali Kleber & Jusamara Souza: The Musical Socialization of Children and Adolescents in Brazil in their Everyday Lives
9. Polo Vallejo: Polyphonic Conception of Music in Georgian Children (Caucasus)
10. Janet Sturman: Integration in Mexican Children's Musical Worlds
Cultural Identities with multiple meanings
11. Alan Kent: Celticity, Community and Continuity in the Children's Musical Cultures of Cornwall
12. Amanda Minks: Miskitu Children's Singing Games on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua as Intercultural Play and Performance
13. Sarah Bartolome: Education and Evangelism in a Sierra Leonean Village
14. Natalie Sarrazin: Children's Urban and Rural Musical Worlds in North India
15. Lisa Huisman Koops: Enjoyment and Socialization in Gambian Children's Music Making
16. Hope Munro Smith: Children's Musical Engagement with Trinidad's Carnival Music
Personal journeys in/through culture
17. Marisol Berríos-Miranda: Musical Childhoods Across Three Generations, from Puerto Rico to the U.S.A.
18. Elizabeth Mackinlay: The Musical Worlds of Aboriginal Children at Burrulula and Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia
19. Chee-Hoo Lum & Eugene Dairianathan: Reflexive and Reflective Perspectives of Musical Childhoods in Singapore
20. Marvelene Moore: The Musical Culture of African American Children in Tennessee
Music in education and development
21. Alexandra Kertz-Welzel: Children's and Adolescents' Musical Needs and Music Education in Germany
22. Sally Bodkin-Allen: Threads of Te Whariki in Early Childhood Musical Activities in Aotearoa/New Zealand
23. Lily Chen Hafteck: The Musical Lives of Children in Hong Kong
24. Young-Youn Kim: Tradition and Change in the Musical Culture of South Korean Children
25. Carlos Abril: Perspectives on the School Band from Hardcore American Band Kids
26. Mayumi Adachi: The Nature of Music-Nurturing in Japanese Preschools
27. Peter Whiteman: The Complex Ecologies of Early Childhood Musical Cultures in Australia
28. Sara Stone Miller and Terry E. Miller: The Role of Context and Experience among the Children of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio
29. Kathy Marsh: Music in the Lives of Refugee and Newly Arrived Immigrant Children in Sydney, Australia
30. Kedmon Mapana: Enculturational Discontinuities in the Musical Experience of the Wagogo Children of Central Tanzania
Technologies: Impacts, Uses and Responses
31. Tyler Bickford: Children's MP3 Players as Material Culture in the U.S.A.
32. Greg Booth: Economics, Class and Musical Apprenticeship in South Asia's Brass Band Communities
33. Anna Hoefnagels & Kristin Harris Walsh: Constructions and Negotiations of Identity in Children's Music in Canada
34. Christopher Roberts: A Historical Look at Three Recordings of Children's Musicking in New York City
35. Trevor Wiggins: Whose Songs in their Heads?

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Patricia Shehan Campbell is Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses at the interface of ethnomusicology and music education. She is author or co-author of numerous books, including Songs in Their Heads, Teaching Music Globally, Music in Childhood, Musician and Teacher, Music in Cultural Context, and Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, and is co-editor of the Global Music Series. She serves on the board of Smithsonian Folkways, was vice-president of The Society for Ethnomusicology, and is president-elect of The College Music Society. She has lectured widely on matters of world music pedagogy, children's musical cultures, and musical embodiment: movement as a pedagogical tool. Trevor Wiggins is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and an independent musician and music educator. He has a particular interest in the interconnections between Ethnomusicology and processes of pedagogy and music education, drawing particularly on his long-term fieldwork in northern Ghana. He has published numerous articles, CDs and pedagogic materials that explore this area and has delivered lectures and workshops on these topics in many countries. He is currently co-editor of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum.

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Special Features

  • Represents a new recognition of children's music, and of musical children, as an area of legitimate study.
  • Investigates the nature, structures, and styles of music preferred and used by children.
  • Covers age range from toddlerhood through childhood and into adolescence.
  • Global coverage.
  • Multi-disciplinary perspectives: ethnomusicology, folklore, education, developmental psychology.