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This open source book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. It guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.

Cocojams is a repository of information, examples, and videos of children's playground rhymes & cheers.  Cocojams uses a folkloric approach to showcase the words of real rhymes that children and youth recite.  Cocojams.com feature*s pages on African American civil rights songs, fraternity & sorority step & stroll chants, as well as (clean) military cadences, sea shanties, and Mardi Gras Indian songs. Cocojams.com also features video examples of selected song & dance traditions and - as a bonus feature - includes pages on the origin & meaning of selected personal names & nicknames. The tie that connects all of these pages is my interest in children's playground rhymes, music, dance, and naming traditions.