The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children's Songs and Games

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SECTION 1: CHILDRENS MUSICAL PLAY AND CREATIVITY: ADULT VIEWS
Chapter 1: Conceptions of Childrens Musical Play,
Chapter 2: Childrens Musical Creativity and Oral Transmission
SECTION 2: INTO THE FIELD
Chapter 3: Investigating Musical Play: Ethics and Pragmatics
Chapter 4: The Playing Fields
SECTION 3: TRANSMISSION PROCESSES IN THE PLAYGROUND
Chapter 5: The Influence of Social Grouping
Chapter 6: Teaching and Learning in the Playground
Chapter 7: Changing the Tradition
SECTION 4: COMPOSITION IN PERFORMANCE
Chapter 8: Composition in the Playground
Chapter 9: Variations on a theme: Sar Macka Dora
Chapter 10: Style and Cultural Idiosyncracy
SECTION 5: CONCLUSIONS AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 11: Conclusions and Pedagogical Implications
Appendix 1: Index of Playground Singing Game Genres from International Field Sites 1990-2004
Appendix 2: Transcription Methods and Notation and Documentation Conventions
Appendix 3: Text Variants of the Sar Macka Dora Game Genre
Appendix 4: Selected Musical Transcriptions of Games
Appendix 5: Transcriptions of Selected Norwegian Games
Appendix 6: Transcriptions of Selected UK Games
Appendix 7: Transcriptions of Selected USA Games
Appendix 8: Transcriptions of Selected Korean Games
Appendix 9: Transcriptions of Selected Australian Games
Appendix 10: Additional Transcriptions
Appendix 11: Video Examples of Illustrative Game Performances from International Field Sites
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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The Musical Playground is a new and fascinating account of the musical play of school-aged children. Based on fifteen years of ethnomusicological field research in urban and rural school playgrounds around the globe, Kathryn Marsh provides unique insights into childrens musical playground activities across a comprehensive scope of social, cultural, and national contexts. With a sophisticated synthesis of ethnomusicological and music education approaches, Marsh examines sung and chanted games, singing and dance routines associated with popular music and sports chants, and more improvised and spontaneous chants, taunts, and rhythmic movements. The books index of more than 300 game genres is a valuable reference to readers in the field of childrens folklore, providing a unique map of game distribution across an array of cultures and geographical locations. On the companion website, readers will be able to view on streamed video, field recordings of childrens musical play throughout the wide range of locations and cultures that form the core of Marshs study, allowing them to better understand the music, movement, and textual characteristics of musical games and interactions. Copious notated musical examples throughout the book and the website demonstrate characteristics of game genres, childrens generative practices, and reflections of cultural influences on game practice, and valuable, practical recommendations are made for developing pedagogies which reflect more child-centred and less Eurocentric views of childrens play, musical learning, and musical creativity. Marsh brings readers to playgrounds in Australia, Norway, the USA, the United Kingdom, and Korea, offering them an important and innovative study of how children transmit, maintain, and transform the games of the playground. The Musical Playground will appeal to practitioners and researchers in music education, ethnomusicology, and folklore.

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