Announcing - Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives . . . [EDP] (C)

• Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:05:03 -0700

Submitted by: ed.asmus@music.utah.edu (Ed Asmus)

Subject: Book: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives

Just out from Oxford University Press:

        Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives
        ISBN 0-19-511101-X (Paperback)

        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, Patricia Shehan 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,
and presents in notated narrative forms some of the "songs in their
heads", balancing music learned with music "made", and intentional,
purposeful music with natural music behavior.
        A forward by Bruno Nettl and the weaving of ideas of British
anthropologist John Blacking give a different twist to a book that is
principally meant to make sense of musical children as they really are
and for how much more musical they can become through education
and training. Designed as a text or supplemental text for undergraduate
methods and field experience courses, as well as a means of understanding
ethnographic and ethnomusicological techniques of research, this book
may appeal to music majors and non-majors, classroom teachers, principals,
and even parents who are interested in understanding and enhancing music
making in children.

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