'The book explores the meaning and value of music in children's lives, based upon their expressed thoughts and actual music-making behaviors in school and at play. Blending standard education
field experiences with ethnomusicological techniques, Campbell demonstrates how music is personally and socially meaningful to children and what values they place on particular musical styles,
songs, and functions. She explores musical behaviors in various contextual settings--in the outdoor garden of the Lakeshore Zebras' preschool, in Mr. Roberts' fifth grade classroom, on a school
bus, at home with the Anderson family, in the Rundale School cafeteria, and at the Toys and More Store'--
