1st Edition
Spinning the Child Musical Constructions of Childhood through Records, Radio and Television
2 Folk music and childhood
3 Woody Guthrie’s 400 songs for children
4 How radio constructs childhood: The changing family values of the BBC’s Children’s Choice
5 The musical pedagogy of Sesame Street
6 How television music constructs childhood: Bagpuss and The Muppet Show
7 How the 21st century children’s music industry constructs childhood
8 Conclusion
Biography
Dr. Liam Maloy is an independent researcher based in Nottingham, UK. He is an ex-member of Britpop band Soda. Since 2008, Liam has written, recorded and performed music for children with his band Johnny and the Raindrops.
"an important, thoroughly researched and highly valuable study, with plenty of further reading and encouragement for scholars. Children’s popular music is now officially an academic ‘thing’, and high time it was too."
Popular Music - Volume 40, Issue 1
"...[a] fascinating study...One of the strengths of this book is the range of sources and methods on which it draws, from investigating artefacts and archives in both the UK and the USA to interviews with artists and others in the present-day children’s music industry. Another valuable contribution to the author’s argument is made by his musical analysis: how words, melody, rhythm, visuals, and narrative mediate particular themes... Maloy makes a convincing case that music made (mostly by adults) for children projects what they want the child to know (or not to know). Ideologies may ‘construct and constrict childhood’, but ultimately, he contends, children can create their own response to what they hear."
Josephine L. Miller, Folk Music Journal - Volume 12 Number 2 (2022)
