Music in Early Childhood: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Inter-disciplinary Exchanges

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Singing and Playing with Friends: Musical Identities and Peer Cultures in Early Years Settings

Chapter 3 Probing the Dynamics of Sibling Interactions in Relation to Musical Development

Chapter 4 The Art of Listening: Infants and Toddlers in Education and Care Group Settings

Chapter 5 The Social Meaning of Shared Musical Experiences in Infancy and Early Childhood

Chapter 6 Embodiment in Early Childhood Music Education

Chapter 7 Spontaneous Singing and Musical Agency in the Everyday Home Lives of Three- and Four-Year-Old Children

Chapter 8 Neuromusical Research and Young Children: Harmonious Relationship or Discordant Notes?

Chapter 9 Sustaining Musical Traditions in Early Childhood: A View from the Field of Ethnomusicology

Chapter 10 Interculturalism in Early Childhood Music Education and the Training of Educators: An Anthropological Framework from the Mediterranean

Chapter 11 Self-Initiated Musicking in Kindergarten as Instances of Emancipation: The Case of Arabic Speaking Young Children in Israel

Chapter 12 World Music Pedagogy in Early Schooling: Issues of Implementation

Chapter 13 Re-thinking Systems of Meaning-Making: A Possible Theoretical Framework for Exploring Children’s Engagement in Music and the Subject Positions of ‘Rock-Boys’ and ‘Pop-Girls’

Chapter 14 The Kindie Movement: Independent Children’s Music in the United States Since 2000

Chapter 15 Music at Their Finger-Tips: Musical Experiences via Touchscreen Technologies in the Everyday Home Lives of Young Children

Chapter 16 Improvisation and / or Music Education: A Child’s Upsetting Clarity