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Print Price: $32.95

Format:
Paperback
336 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780195382525

Publication date:
December 2010

Imprint: OUP US

Songs in Their Heads

Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives, Second Edition

Patricia S. Campbell

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.

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

Introduction: Musical Children
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
Afterword
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
References

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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.

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Special Features

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.