Abstract
What causes some children to want to play a musical instrument? Why do some children always have melodies running through their heads? In her book, Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in subChildren’s Lives, Patricia Campbell addresses these types of questions while exploring how children of diverse ages, classes, and cultures use music in their daily lives, how ethnomusicology, the study of music through cultural influences, shape their musical experiences, and how recent advancements in technology and the influence of popular culture affect their musical choices.
Highlights
Reviewed by: Looking back on my childhood, it is difficult to remember a time when I was not in formal music training
Campbell (2010) introduces her inspiration for the studies through a story of a young boy in a schoolyard saying that every morning he wakes up with songs in his head
Brock Education, 21(1), 98-100 demonstrated the concept with ease and nonchalance, and with considerable feeling” (p. 35)
Summary
Reviewed by: Looking back on my childhood, it is difficult to remember a time when I was not in formal music training. This seemingly simple statement triggered numerous questions for Campbell (2010) as she wondered if these were "songs of the musically gifted? The musical examples embedded within the text support the observations, and allow the reader to interpret various transcriptions of rhythms, vocalizations, songs, and chants that Campbell audio/video taped.
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