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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.

Great article on the benefits of being involved in a college marching band.