Meme Engineers: children as producers of musical culture
Abstract
This paper examines the ways in which young children construct and negotiate musical meaning as song-makers in a post-modern consumerist musical world. A critical analysis of the presentation of music in two popular Australian children's television programmes (Play School and Hi-5) and the ways in which such media impact upon children's constructions of music and musical understanding is presented. This analysis provides a context for the examination of tensions that exist between a modernist account of what constitutes musical understanding in the young child, and an account that is cognisant of post-modern aesthetics. The implications of this concerning views of children's musical development and curriculum decision making are discussed and a view of the child as an active agent in the construction of her musical worlds is illustrated through an examination of the musical narratives of a 4-year-old child.
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Margaret S. Barrett (2003). Meme Engineers: children as producers of musical culture. International Journal of Early Years Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966976032000147325
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title = {Meme Engineers: children as producers of musical culture},
author = {Barrett, Margaret S.},
year = {2003},
journal = {International Journal of Early Years Education},
doi = {10.1080/0966976032000147325}
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