TY - CHAP

T1 - The Meaning of Musical Instruments and Music Technologies in Children's Lives

AU - Bang, Jytte Susanne

N1 - Jytte Bang is an associate porfessor at the department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - In this chapter, I will investigate the role of musical instruments in children’slives. A musical instrument is a thing which has the capacity to produce a variationof sounds perceived as music when the musician follows certain conventionsand rules. The child who learns to play a musical instrument involveshim/herself both with music as a cultural field and with the steady technicaland expressive requirements from the particular musical instrument. However,whereas music accompanies very many activities in everyday life of children,fewer children have such an active relationship with a musical instrument. Themore so when what is practiced by the instrument is classical music. This gapbetween music as consumed (listening to) and music as practiced (playing) isinteresting from a developmental perspective: what does it mean for a child toplay a musical instrument? And in which ways may the gap between consumingmusic and playing music be relevant in children’s live in the recent historicalperiod of advanced liberalism? In the chapter, I will investigate the role ofmusical instruments for children who practice classical music.

AB - In this chapter, I will investigate the role of musical instruments in children’slives. A musical instrument is a thing which has the capacity to produce a variationof sounds perceived as music when the musician follows certain conventionsand rules. The child who learns to play a musical instrument involveshim/herself both with music as a cultural field and with the steady technicaland expressive requirements from the particular musical instrument. However,whereas music accompanies very many activities in everyday life of children,fewer children have such an active relationship with a musical instrument. Themore so when what is practiced by the instrument is classical music. This gapbetween music as consumed (listening to) and music as practiced (playing) isinteresting from a developmental perspective: what does it mean for a child toplay a musical instrument? And in which ways may the gap between consumingmusic and playing music be relevant in children’s live in the recent historicalperiod of advanced liberalism? In the chapter, I will investigate the role ofmusical instruments for children who practice classical music.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Musical instruments, music technologies, children, development

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-8376-2553-0

SP - 175

EP - 197

BT - Kinder und Dinge

A2 - Schachtner, Christina

PB - Transcript Verlag

CY - Berlin

ER -