Children's Exposure to Music Flashcards
Explain Lamont’s (2008) study that looked into the the child’s musical world
Looked at 28 families with 3-4 year-olds through experience sampling
Found that over 1/3rd of the times they contacted the families there was music involved (38% of the episodes involved music)
19% of the episodes had no music for 2 hours. 81% of cases had been exposed to music in the previous 2 hours.
15.6% of episodes involved making music (mostly singing)
What is experience sampling?
You ask people what they are doing via a text message
What did Lamont (2008) find in terms of what sort of music was involved in family’s lives?
30% of episodes involved music as a secondary activity (e.g., background music on TV)
Only one episode of music listening had music as the primary activity.
What can we conclude from Lamont’s (2008) study into the child’s musical world?
Most of the music listening was primarily incidental
Music was particularly prevalent in the car
Most music was recorded music (over 82% of music being experienced)
What did Lamont (2008) find about car journeys?
Only 1/49 car journeys had no music.
Music was a very regular accompaniment to a car journey.
What was the most common style of music found by Lamont (2008)?
Generic children’s music (either on TV or music chosen by the children)
Who chose the music in Lamont (2008)?
Children
There were only 2 episodes in which the music was chosen by fathers
