Musical childhoods & the cultures of youth / edited by Susan Boynton & Roe-Min Kok.

Other author Boynton, Susan, 1966- editor.
Other author Kok, Roe-Min, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoMiddletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxvi, 256 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Music--Social aspects.
Music and youth.
Music--Psychological aspects.

Variant title Musical childhoods and the cultures of youth
SeriesMusic/culture
Music/culture. ^A390481
Contents The sociomusical role of child oblates at the Abbey of Cluny in the eleventh century / Susan Boynton, Isabelle Cochelin -- Imagining the sacred body: choirboys, their voices, and Corpus Christi in early modern Seville / Todd M. Borgerding -- Silent music: the Apache transformation of a girl to a woman / Anne Dhu McLucas -- Ravel's child: magic and moral development / Steven Huebner -- Music for a postcolonial child: theorizing Malaysian memories / Roe-Min Kok -- Telling histories: memory, childhood, and the construction of modern griot identity / Patricia Tang -- Destined for greatness one song at a time: coming of age as a Korean p'ansori performer / Heather A. Willoughby -- "We are changing the world!" : New German folk songs for the Free German Youth (1950) / Joy H. Calico -- Defining the "children of the nation": three stages of children's music in modern Japan / Hermann Gottschewski, Machiko Gottschewski -- "And the youth shall see visions": songleading, summer camps, and identity among reform Jewish teenagers / Judah M. Cohen.
Abstract This book contributes to the literature on childhood studies and shows how children are socialized into the musical life of their communities. Children have rarely been central to musicological or anthropological studies, and childhood was once dismissed as too early in the human developmental process to be of significant interest. In a variety of historical, social, and cultural frameworks, these 10 essays address subjects as diverse as choirboys in early modern Seville, the griot culture of West Africa, and Jewish youth at summer camp. The essays reveal childhood as a time all its own, a time when individual identities are forged through music, and when voices emerge in ways that are as personal as they are communally bound and musically varied. This is an important book for music scholars, educators, cultural and social historians, and for scholars across the social sciences, as well as anyone interested in childhood. It sheds new light on children and youth cultures as alternately dependent upon and independent from the "grown-up" musical worlds that surround them.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.
LCCN 2005054696
ISBN0819568023 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0819568031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780819568038

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3916 .M883 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold