• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: sounding lives in and through music : a narrative inquiry of the `everyday' musical engagement of a young child : a narrative inquiry of the `everyday' musical engagement of a young child
  • Contributor: Barrett, Margaret S.
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2009
  • Published in: Journal of Early Childhood Research, 7 (2009) 2, Seite 115-134
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/1476718x09102645
  • ISSN: 1476-718X; 1741-2927
  • Keywords: Developmental and Educational Psychology ; Education ; Health (social science)
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  • Description: <jats:p>There is growing interest in the study of young children's `everyday' lives. Music engagement is central to young children's experience of the `everyday' yet few studies have investigated the ways young children and their families engage with and use music in their daily lives. The purpose of this article is twofold: it interrogates the ways in which a young child, and his family draw on musical engagement and use in their daily life; and it provides a storied account as a means to demonstrate the uses of narrative inquiry to early childhood research. Findings identify: the parenting education role of early music programs; the function of joint music-making in the regulation of children's behaviour and emotional states; the contribution of joint and individual music-making to children's language development; the role of individual music-making in children's self-making; and the function of joint music-making in fostering family unity.</jats:p>