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