Patricia Shehan Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 99860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Shehan Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Shehan |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5103-2115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Envisioning Orff and Kodály Today: A Century of Possibilities Seized and Missed in Culturally Diverse Music Education
What would have been the work of Orff and Kodály if they had been surrounded by the sounds of children deeply engaged in West African ewe drumming and dancing, Indonesian gamelan, Caribbean calypso, Turkish aşık songs, and Saami yoiking? If Orff could have handed over his smart phone to Kodály and said: “Listen to the incredible interlocking patterns in this children’s song from Burundi, the microtones in this Indian raga, the harmonies of this i…
Creating Culturally Sustaining Spaces in the Compositional Process
This chapter explores culture in the compositional process and ways in which teachers can facilitate the musical inventions of students of diverse backgrounds. Culture is acknowledged as key to a reckoning with creativity in music, in the context of formal education. The chapter addresses the interdisciplinary fascination with creativity inside and outside musical circles, and how social and educational inequities have characterized schooling, in…
Families as small-community quarantine pods of sociomusical engagement
This article considers the musical lives of eleven US-based families, micro-communities of sorts, as they were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated physical isolation directives. With a focus on family pods as sites and sources of community, we employed processes of virtual ethnography including interviews, observations and the distribution of cameras to help empower participants, especially the children, to become active collaborator…
World Music Pedagogy: Gateway to Global Citizenship and Children’s Creative Impulses
In this article, we seek to examine ways in which educators can bring music of world cultures into classrooms of children in a respectful, sensitive manner. Myriad issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the center of the conversation among music educators across the globe. As educators are committed to issues of globaliation, social justice, and cultural democracy, we intend here to discuss World Music Pedagogy (WMP) as a means of fost…
At the nexus of ethnomusicology and music education: Pathways to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The unique and shared visions of dynamic activist-musicians in Ethnomusicology and Music Education have resulted in changes to curricular content and instructional processes in schools and on university campuses. Teachers in a wide variety of venues, including university professors, who seek a multicultural-intercultural-global array of songs, instrumental pieces, dance, and listening selections are locating them online, where they are finding th…
Teachers as Agents of the Repatriation of Music and Cultural Heritage
As the movement to repatriate music from archives gathers steam, the question of how to effectively disseminate the music to people in the culture of origin becomes a pressing issue. This chapter argues that K–12 teachers have a distinctive ability to reintroduce archival music, through three major approaches. In “close-by child-songs by children,” teachers design lessons that incorporate field recordings of children’s music from their home cultu…
An Earful of Africa: Insights from Tanzania on Music and Music Learning
The Manifesto in Motion: Change Comes to Undergraduate Music Studies
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, and Integration
Foreword to Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching: Then, Now, and Into the Future
Music in Higher Education: Evolution Now and Ahead of Us
Get-in-the-groove music: Rhythmicking with young children
The expressive capacities of young children in music are understood to develop naturally from infancy, and are home-grown in families where music is valued and present. The act of ‘rhythmicking’, which is engagement in some manner of rhythmic behaviour, is one of children’s expressive features long before they are introduced to musical study in some formal or systematic manner. With a conscious attention to the application of a community music se…
The Oxford handbook of children's musical cultures
Effect of Intensive Instruction on Elementary Students’ Memory for Culturally Unfamiliar Music
Previous researchers have found that both adults and children demonstrate better memory for novel music from their own music culture than from an unfamiliar music culture. It was the purpose of this study to determine whether this “enculturation effect” could be mediated through an extended intensive instructional unit in another culture’s music. Fifth-grade students in four intact general music classrooms (two each at two elementary schools in a…
Cellabration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins Pete Seeger: Folk Songs for Young People Tom Glazer Sings Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG …. And Other Children’s Favorites
Book Review| May 01 2012 cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins Pete Seeger: Folk Songs for Young People Tom Glazer Sings Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG .... and Other Children’s Favorites cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins. 2004. Smithsonian Folkways CD 45059.Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins. 2003. Smithsonian Folkways CD 45058.Pete Seeger: Folk Songs for Young People. 1959. Smithsonian Folkways CD 45024.To…
Music Alive! In the Yakima Valley
This is an account of an ongoing project embedded within a university programme in music teacher education, designed and developed in the spirit of community music's embrace of musical exchanges within and between communities. The project is aimed at providing musicians-becoming-teachers with first-hand interaction with children and youth of the Yakama Indian and Mexican-American cultural communities. Documentation is provided detailing the chall…
John Langstaff: Community musician and reveler
John Langstaff fits within a select group of pathfinders in American music education who have shaped the profession's service to schools and society with special attention to the traditional musical expressions of American folk. His life and works are worthy of study for the contributions he made as a singer who modelled the nuances of traditional genres and styles for school children, youth and adult amateur musicians who shared his enthusiasm f…
A University—School Music Partnership for Music Education Majors in a Culturally Distinctive Community
University—community collaborations are a fairly recent phenomenon, which has often been manifested through the establishment of university partnerships with schools. This research sought to document the process and outcomes of a university—school collaboration called Music Alive! in the Valley (MAV), a yearlong partnership between 33 university music education students and faculty with an elementary school within a rural location of a western st…
American Folk Songs for Children: Ruth Crawford Seeger's Contributions to Music Education
American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger grew into the role of music educator as a consummate musician with a deep interest in connecting children to their American musical heritage. This article examines the contributions of Ruth Crawford Seeger to American music education, principally through examination of primary and secondary sources and review of her published works. While historical in some of its methodological procedures, it is even more s…
Adolescents' Expressed Meanings of Music in and out of School
This study aimed to determine the significance of music and music education to middle and high school adolescents, including those enrolled and not enrolled in school music programs. Of particular interest were their expressed meanings of music both in and out of school, with attention to adolescent views on the role of music in identity formation, the musical and nonmusical benefits for adolescents of their engagement with music, the curricular …
The Sonic Surrounds of an Elementary School
In this ethnographic study, we examined the musicking behaviors of schoolchildren at one American elementary school. The aim was to gain an understanding of the nature and context of rhythmic and melodic expressions made and heard by children, emanating from other children, as well as adults within the school environment. Time, place, and function figured as contextual considerations in the investigation of the sonic surrounds of the school; know…
Ethnomusicology and Music Education: Crossroads for knowing music, education, and culture
The influences of ethnomusicological theory and method on scholarly and practical aspects of music education will be considered here, as well as the nature of music education's impact on the scholarship and teaching by ethnomusicologists. An examination of books, monographs, journal articles, instructional materials, and conference proceedings is underway to determine ideas and practices of overlapping interest. The writings of John Blacking, Cha…
A Matter of Perspective: Thoughts on the Multiple Realities of Research
Patricia Shehan Campbell is the recipient of the MENC 2002 Senior Researcher Award. The following speech was presented on April 12, 2002, at a special session of the Society for Research in Music Education at MENC's National Biennial In-Service Conference in Nashville, Tennessee
Counting Games and Rhythms for the Little Ones
Unsafe suppositions? Cutting across cultures on questions of music's transmission
The study of transmission, the delivery and acquisition (or teaching and learning) of music, is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is of increasing interest and importance to music teachers who strive for a broadly conceived template of pedagogical considerations that transcend cultural boundaries. The potential for idiographic studies of transmission is considered along with an approach that encompasses crosscultural comparisons (if not universals…
Of Garage Bands and Song-getting: The Musical Development of Young Rock Musicians
This paper explores systems of music transmission, teaching and learning in evidence within the rehearsals of rock bands. Informants were nine musicians in two Seattle rock bands, all white males, ranging in age from fourteen to sixteen. Through interviews and observations of practice sessions, 'song-getting' and' skill-building' processes were noted. Attention was given to the young musicians' analytical listening behaviours, their evaluative re…
Adolescents' Expressed Meanings of Music in and out of School
This study aimed to determine the significance of music and music education to middle and high school adolescents, including those enrolled and not enrolled in school music programs. Of particular interest were their expressed meanings of music both in and out of school, with attention to adolescent views on the role of music in identity formation, the musical and nonmusical benefits for adolescents of their engagement with music, the curricular …
Ethnomusicology and Music Education: Crossroads for knowing music, education, and culture
The influences of ethnomusicological theory and method on scholarly and practical aspects of music education will be considered here, as well as the nature of music education's impact on the scholarship and teaching by ethnomusicologists. An examination of books, monographs, journal articles, instructional materials, and conference proceedings is underway to determine ideas and practices of overlapping interest. The writings of John Blacking, Cha…
Unsafe suppositions? Cutting across cultures on questions of music's transmission
The study of transmission, the delivery and acquisition (or teaching and learning) of music, is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is of increasing interest and importance to music teachers who strive for a broadly conceived template of pedagogical considerations that transcend cultural boundaries. The potential for idiographic studies of transmission is considered along with an approach that encompasses crosscultural comparisons (if not universals…
At the nexus of ethnomusicology and music education: Pathways to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The unique and shared visions of dynamic activist-musicians in Ethnomusicology and Music Education have resulted in changes to curricular content and instructional processes in schools and on university campuses. Teachers in a wide variety of venues, including university professors, who seek a multicultural-intercultural-global array of songs, instrumental pieces, dance, and listening selections are locating them online, where they are finding th…
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, and Integration
American Folk Songs for Children: Ruth Crawford Seeger's Contributions to Music Education
American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger grew into the role of music educator as a consummate musician with a deep interest in connecting children to their American musical heritage. This article examines the contributions of Ruth Crawford Seeger to American music education, principally through examination of primary and secondary sources and review of her published works. While historical in some of its methodological procedures, it is even more s…
The Sonic Surrounds of an Elementary School
In this ethnographic study, we examined the musicking behaviors of schoolchildren at one American elementary school. The aim was to gain an understanding of the nature and context of rhythmic and melodic expressions made and heard by children, emanating from other children, as well as adults within the school environment. Time, place, and function figured as contextual considerations in the investigation of the sonic surrounds of the school; know…
A Matter of Perspective: Thoughts on the Multiple Realities of Research
Patricia Shehan Campbell is the recipient of the MENC 2002 Senior Researcher Award. The following speech was presented on April 12, 2002, at a special session of the Society for Research in Music Education at MENC's National Biennial In-Service Conference in Nashville, Tennessee
A University—School Music Partnership for Music Education Majors in a Culturally Distinctive Community
University—community collaborations are a fairly recent phenomenon, which has often been manifested through the establishment of university partnerships with schools. This research sought to document the process and outcomes of a university—school collaboration called Music Alive! in the Valley (MAV), a yearlong partnership between 33 university music education students and faculty with an elementary school within a rural location of a western st…
How Musical We Are: John Blacking on Music, Education, and Cultural Understanding
The distinguished music scholar John Blacking (1928-1990) made the study of music in culture and the nature of musical thought and behavior his lifelong quest. Although an anthropologist by training and an ethnomusicologist in his academic output, he produced a vast quantity of publications on the nature of musicality and musical development in the Venda children of northern Transvaal, South Africa. There are multiple purposes of this research, s…
Approaches to Children's Song Acquisition: Immersion and Phrase-by-Phrase
This study is an examination of the effect of two instructional procedures for teaching songs to children: (a) immersion, in which the teacher presents the song in its entirety repeatedly, always from the beginning of the song to its conclusion, and (b) phrase-by-phrase, a method whereby the teacher fragments and then gradually connects song phrases toward the creation of a meaningful whole. Thirty-nine second-grade children from two classes were…
Rhythmic Movement and Public School Music Education: Conservative and Progressive Views of the Formative Years
The infusion of rhythmic movement into elementary music programs was a gradual process extending from the late 19th century through the third decade of the 20th century, Changing educational philosophies caused the shift from traditional curricular goals focused on singing and note-reading to the more progressive view of rhythmic movement as an avenue for the total development of the physical, social, cultural, and expressive needs of the child, …
Bell Yung on Music of China: As part of the “Music in Cultural Context” series, this interview with Bell Yung focuses on the music of China
Authentic” vs. “Traditional”
An Ethnography of Improvisation Training in a Music Methods Course
In the belief that the strengthening of secondary school music programs is at least partially linked to the training of prospective teachers in the techniques of improvisation, me have examined the process by which music education students reveal an understanding of improvisation, its relationship to analytical listening, the musical and social interactions that can result from its study and practice in a group setting, and ways to integrate it i…
Of Garage Bands and Song-getting: The Musical Development of Young Rock Musicians
This paper explores systems of music transmission, teaching and learning in evidence within the rehearsals of rock bands. Informants were nine musicians in two Seattle rock bands, all white males, ranging in age from fourteen to sixteen. Through interviews and observations of practice sessions, 'song-getting' and' skill-building' processes were noted. Attention was given to the young musicians' analytical listening behaviours, their evaluative re…
Approaches to Children's Song Acquisition: Immersion and Phrase-by-Phrase
This study is an examination of the effect of two instructional procedures for teaching songs to children: (a) immersion, in which the teacher presents the song in its entirety repeatedly, always from the beginning of the song to its conclusion, and (b) phrase-by-phrase, a method whereby the teacher fragments and then gradually connects song phrases toward the creation of a meaningful whole. Thirty-nine second-grade children from two classes were…
Music, Education, and Multiculturalism: Foundations and Principles
How Musical We Are: John Blacking on Music, Education, and Cultural Understanding
The distinguished music scholar John Blacking (1928-1990) made the study of music in culture and the nature of musical thought and behavior his lifelong quest. Although an anthropologist by training and an ethnomusicologist in his academic output, he produced a vast quantity of publications on the nature of musicality and musical development in the Venda children of northern Transvaal, South Africa. There are multiple purposes of this research, s…
Unsafe suppositions? Cutting across cultures on questions of music's transmission
The study of transmission, the delivery and acquisition (or teaching and learning) of music, is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is of increasing interest and importance to music teachers who strive for a broadly conceived template of pedagogical considerations that transcend cultural boundaries. The potential for idiographic studies of transmission is considered along with an approach that encompasses crosscultural comparisons (if not universals…
Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives
This book explores the musical interest and needs of children in their daily lives. Based upon their expressed thoughts and actual 'musicking' behaviours, this text examines the songs they sing, the rythyms they make, and the roles that music plays for them. Blending standard education field experiences with ethnographic techniques, Dr. Campbell demonstrates how music is personally and socially meaningful to children and what values they place on…
A Matter of Perspective: Thoughts on the Multiple Realities of Research
Patricia Shehan Campbell is the recipient of the MENC 2002 Senior Researcher Award. The following speech was presented on April 12, 2002, at a special session of the Society for Research in Music Education at MENC's National Biennial In-Service Conference in Nashville, Tennessee
Counting Games and Rhythms for the Little Ones
Ethnomusicology and Music Education: Crossroads for knowing music, education, and culture
The influences of ethnomusicological theory and method on scholarly and practical aspects of music education will be considered here, as well as the nature of music education's impact on the scholarship and teaching by ethnomusicologists. An examination of books, monographs, journal articles, instructional materials, and conference proceedings is underway to determine ideas and practices of overlapping interest. The writings of John Blacking, Cha…
Adolescents' Expressed Meanings of Music in and out of School
This study aimed to determine the significance of music and music education to middle and high school adolescents, including those enrolled and not enrolled in school music programs. Of particular interest were their expressed meanings of music both in and out of school, with attention to adolescent views on the role of music in identity formation, the musical and nonmusical benefits for adolescents of their engagement with music, the curricular …
The Sonic Surrounds of an Elementary School
In this ethnographic study, we examined the musicking behaviors of schoolchildren at one American elementary school. The aim was to gain an understanding of the nature and context of rhythmic and melodic expressions made and heard by children, emanating from other children, as well as adults within the school environment. Time, place, and function figured as contextual considerations in the investigation of the sonic surrounds of the school; know…
American Folk Songs for Children: Ruth Crawford Seeger's Contributions to Music Education
American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger grew into the role of music educator as a consummate musician with a deep interest in connecting children to their American musical heritage. This article examines the contributions of Ruth Crawford Seeger to American music education, principally through examination of primary and secondary sources and review of her published works. While historical in some of its methodological procedures, it is even more s…
John Langstaff: Community musician and reveler
John Langstaff fits within a select group of pathfinders in American music education who have shaped the profession's service to schools and society with special attention to the traditional musical expressions of American folk. His life and works are worthy of study for the contributions he made as a singer who modelled the nuances of traditional genres and styles for school children, youth and adult amateur musicians who shared his enthusiasm f…
A University—School Music Partnership for Music Education Majors in a Culturally Distinctive Community
University—community collaborations are a fairly recent phenomenon, which has often been manifested through the establishment of university partnerships with schools. This research sought to document the process and outcomes of a university—school collaboration called Music Alive! in the Valley (MAV), a yearlong partnership between 33 university music education students and faculty with an elementary school within a rural location of a western st…
Music Alive! In the Yakima Valley
This is an account of an ongoing project embedded within a university programme in music teacher education, designed and developed in the spirit of community music's embrace of musical exchanges within and between communities. The project is aimed at providing musicians-becoming-teachers with first-hand interaction with children and youth of the Yakama Indian and Mexican-American cultural communities. Documentation is provided detailing the chall…
The Oxford handbook of children's musical cultures
Effect of Intensive Instruction on Elementary Students’ Memory for Culturally Unfamiliar Music
Previous researchers have found that both adults and children demonstrate better memory for novel music from their own music culture than from an unfamiliar music culture. It was the purpose of this study to determine whether this “enculturation effect” could be mediated through an extended intensive instructional unit in another culture’s music. Fifth-grade students in four intact general music classrooms (two each at two elementary schools in a…
Cellabration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins Pete Seeger: Folk Songs for Young People Tom Glazer Sings Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG …. And Other Children’s Favorites
Book Review| May 01 2012 cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins Pete Seeger: Folk Songs for Young People Tom Glazer Sings Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG .... and Other Children’s Favorites cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins. 2004. Smithsonian Folkways CD 45059.Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins. 2003. Smithsonian Folkways CD 45058.Pete Seeger: Folk Songs for Young People. 1959. Smithsonian Folkways CD 45024.To…
Get-in-the-groove music: Rhythmicking with young children
The expressive capacities of young children in music are understood to develop naturally from infancy, and are home-grown in families where music is valued and present. The act of ‘rhythmicking’, which is engagement in some manner of rhythmic behaviour, is one of children’s expressive features long before they are introduced to musical study in some formal or systematic manner. With a conscious attention to the application of a community music se…
Foreword to Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching: Then, Now, and Into the Future
Music in Higher Education: Evolution Now and Ahead of Us
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