"Wonderful."--Herbie Hancock A pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development--and how parents and educators can harnes

Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children's identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a cu

An expert in cognitive development and music education reveals the remarkable and surprising benefits that playing--or even appreciating--music offers to childr

Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music? is a remarkable collection of black folktales and photographs from rural Georgia. During the 1930s and 1940s Rose Thomp

Spinning the Child examines music for children on records, radio and television by assessing how ideals of entertainment, education, ‘the child’ and ‘the