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01-Feb-08, 20:20
The Caithness Arts Index (http://arts.caithness.org) has posted the following article:
MUSIC MANIFESTO OFF KEY FOR PARENTS OF SCOTTISH PRE-SCHOOLERS
Leading pre-school music and movement group, Jo Jingles has launched a call to action to get Scottish families with pre-school children singing in the home and for both parental and child participation in music groups to be seen as of equal importance to swimming classes and gym tot activities. This move is in direct response to groundbreaking research into the music and singing habits of 1000 UK families with pre-school age children, which shows that many are being bombarded with a cocktail of advertising jingles, TV theme tunes and pop music, whilst parents' knowledge of far more beneficial traditional nursery rhymes is declining to such an extent that there is a serious risk that this cultural heritage may die out completely. ... [Read Full Article (http://arts.caithness.org/article.php?id=447)]
MUSIC MANIFESTO OFF KEY FOR PARENTS OF SCOTTISH PRE-SCHOOLERS
Leading pre-school music and movement group, Jo Jingles has launched a call to action to get Scottish families with pre-school children singing in the home and for both parental and child participation in music groups to be seen as of equal importance to swimming classes and gym tot activities. This move is in direct response to groundbreaking research into the music and singing habits of 1000 UK families with pre-school age children, which shows that many are being bombarded with a cocktail of advertising jingles, TV theme tunes and pop music, whilst parents' knowledge of far more beneficial traditional nursery rhymes is declining to such an extent that there is a serious risk that this cultural heritage may die out completely. ... [Read Full Article (http://arts.caithness.org/article.php?id=447)]