Part I. Engagements with culture : socialization and identity
Part 1a. (Re)making cultures for/by children/updating tradition.
ch.1 . Girls experiencing Gamelan education and cultural politics in Bali / Sonja Lynn Downing
ch. 2. Youth music at the Yakama Nation tribal school / Robert Pitzer
ch. 3. Reform Jewish songleading and the flexible practices of Jewish-American youth / Judh M. Cohen
ch. 4. Venda children's musical culture in Limpopo, South Africa / Andrea Emberly
ch. 5. Songs of Japanese schoolchildren during World War II / Noriko Manabe
ch. 6. Girlhood songs, musical tales, and musical games as strategies for socialization into womanhood among the Bahanda of Uganda / Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
ch. 7. Musical cultures of girls in the Brazilian Amazon / Beatriz Ilari
ch. 8. The musical socialization of children and adolescents in Brazil in their everday lives / Magaly Kleber and Jusamara Souza
ch. 9. Georgian (Caucasus) children's polyphic conception of music / Polo Vallejo
ch. 10. Integration in Mexican children's musical worlds / Janet Sturman
Part 1b. Cultural identities with multiple meanings
ch. 11. Celticity, community, and continuity in the children's musical cultures of Cornwall / Alan M. Kent
ch. 12. Miskitu children's singing games on the caribbean coast of Nicaragua as intercultural play and performance / Amanda Minks
ch. 13. Education and Evangelism in a Sierra Leonean village / Sarah J. Bartolome
ch. 14. children's urban and rural musical worlds in North India / Natalie Sarrazin
ch. 15. Enjoyment and socialization in Gambian children's music making / Lisa Huisman Koops
ch. 16. Children's musical engagement with Trinidad's carnival music / Hope Munro Smith
Part II. Personal journeys in/through culture
ch. 17. Musical childhoods across three generations, from Puerto Rico to the USA / Marisol berrios-Miranda
ch. 18. The musical worlds of aboriginal children at Currulula and Darwin in the northern territory of Australia / Elizabeth Mackinlay
ch. 19. Reflexive adn reflective perspectives of musical childhoods in Singapore / Chee-Hoo Lum and Eugene Dairianathan
ch. 20. The musical culture of African American children in Tennessee / Marvelene C. Moore
Part III. Music in education and development
ch. 21. Children's and adolescents' musical needs and music in Germany / Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
ch. 22. Interweaving threads of music in the Whariki of early childhood cultures in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Sally Bodkin-Allen
ch. 23. Balancing change and tradition in the musical lives of children in Hong Kong / Lily Chen-Hafteck
ch. 24. Tradition and change in the musical culture of South Korean children / Young-Youn Kim
ch. 25. Perspectives on the school band from hardcore American band kids / Carlos R. Abril
ch. 26. The nature of music nurturing in Japanese preschools / Mayumi Adachi
ch. 27. The complex ecologies of early childhood musical cultures / Peter Whiteman
ch. 28. The role of context and experience among the children of the Church of God and Saints of Chirist, Cleveland, Ohio / Sara Stone Miller and Terry E. Miller
ch. 29. Music in the lives of refugee and newly arrived mimmigrant children in Sydney, Australia / Kathryn Marsh
ch. 30. Enculturational discontinuities in the musical experience of the Wagogo children of Central Tanzania / Kedmon mapana
ch. 31. Tinkering and thethering in the material culture of children's MP3 players / Tyler Bickford
ch. 32. Economics, class, and musical apprenticeship in South Asia's brass band communities / Gregory D. Booth
ch. 33. Contructions and negotiations of identity in children's musica in Canada / Anna Hoefnagels and Kristin Harris Walsh
ch. 34. A historical look at three recordings of children's musicking in New York City / Christopher Roberts
ch. 35. Whose songs in their heads? / Trevor Wiggins.