Kari Richmond - founder and director of Asheville Area Music Together.
I'm happy to talk about kids and music any time! Come watch a class!
828-545-0990
karirichmond@charter.net
More about Obwisana, the children's song/game from Ghana:
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=1254&c=36
Play and Music Together
https://www.musictogether.com/blog/play-and-music-together/
Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/early-music-lessons-have-longtime-benefits/?_r=0
Slideshow of how music affects the brain:
http://www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu/slideshows/music/index.php
Edwin Gordon's theory of audition, music learning process for children:
http://giml.org/mlt/audiation/
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) http://www.naeyc.org/content/music is a professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
The association comprises nearly 70,000 individual members of the early childhood community and more than 300 regional Affiliate chapters, all committed to delivering on the promise of high-quality early learning. Together, we work to achieve a collective vision: that all young children thrive and learn in a society dedicated to ensuring they reach their full potential.
Books:
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2nd ed) - Oliver Sacks
The Ways Children Learn Music (2nd ed) - Eric Bluestine
one elementary school music teacher's clear explanation of Edwin Gordon's music-learning theory and the curriculum he has developed based on Gordon theory
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body - Steven Mithen
"The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind…"
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - Daniel J. Levitin
What can music teach us about the brain? What can the brain teach us about music? And what can both teach us about ourselves? In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind) explores the connection between music - its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it - and the human brain.
