Presents the first interdisciplinary collection that focuses on music in early childhood

Is written by internationally renowned authors covering a wide range of viewpoints

Introduces new areas of empirical research

Offers new insights and understanding of music in the lives of very young children

1 Introduction; Susan Young and Beatriz Ilari.- Part I: Children Making Music with Others.- 2 Singing and Playing with Friends: Musical Identities and Peer Cultures in Early Years Settings; Amanda Niland.- 3 Probing the Dynamics of Sibling Interactions in Relation to Musical Development; Lisa Huisman Koops and Christa R. Kuebel.- 4 The Art of Listening: Infants and Toddlers in Education and Care Group Settings; Berenice Nyland.- Part II: Young Children's Capacities for Music.- 5 The Social Meaning of Shared Musical Experiences in Infancy and Early Childhood; Gaye Soley.- 6 Embodiment in Early Childhood Music Education; Luc Nijs and Melissa Bremmer.- 7 Spontaneous Singing and Musical Agency in the Everyday Home Lives of Three- and Four-year-old Children; Bronya Dean.- 8 Neuromusical Research and Young Children: Harmonious Relationship or Discordant Notes?; Beatriz Ilari and Eun Cho.- Part III: Music for Young Children: Traditions.- 9 Sustaining Musical Traditions in Early Childhood: A View From the Field of Ethnomusicology; Andrea Emberly.- 10 Interculturalism in Early Childhood Music Education and the Training of Educators: An Anthropological Framework from the Mediterranean; Avra Pieridou Skoutella.- 11 Self-initiated Musicking in Kindergarten as Instances of Emancipation: The Case of Arabic Speaking Young Children in Israel; Claudia Gluschankof.- 12 World Music Pedagogy in Early Schooling: Issues of Implementation; J. Christopher Roberts.- Part IV: Constructed and Mediated Musical Childhoods.- 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'; Ingeborg Lunde Vestad.- 14 The Kindie Movement: Independent Children's Music in the United States Since 2000; Tyler Bickford.- 15 Music at Their Finger-tips: Musical Experiences via Touchscreen Technologies in the Everyday Home Lives of Young Children; Susan Young and Yen-Ting Wu.- 16 Improvisation and/or Music Education: A Child's Upsetting Clarity; Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos.- Afterword; Beatriz Ilari and Susan Young.