Foreward / George Lipsitz |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction |
Children: "I dance to 'Dude Looks Like a Lady'." / Heather |
"You have to have a lullaby before you sleep." / Johnnie |
"I just play with my songs..." / Carley |
"I was stuck in the snow cave, and I felt like listening to music." / Billy |
"They teach us so that we know what to do with our kids when we grow up." / Jennie |
"I like to look for things that people don't really recognize." / Molly |
Teenagers: "What would the human ear do...?" / Lisa |
" They play weird songs you have to be so old to know." / Matthew |
" Rap is things you say fast." / Connie |
"Sometimes I think about life, and all the problems I have." / Edwardo |
"I still have my violin from when I was five." / May |
"I listen to other music and then I go see the Dead." / Anita |
Young Adults: "It's the first remedy for trying to get out of my boredom." / Beth |
"... if I were to cuss someone out right after church, what does my singing mean?" / Mabel |
"I'm not gonna sit there and worship someone." / Alan |
" It's about aggression." / Abby |
"Roger Waters is really it for me." / Rhonda |
"It's hard to explain...it's all feelings and emotions..." / Gail |
"They feel it more because they created the instrument." / Victor |
"It is not the making sound...it is how one nation expresses its opinion." / Chad |
Adults: "Music is just part of life, like air." / Neil |
"It's a kind of critiquing...an enjoyable critiquing." / Ralph |
"...I can't wait to come home and get back to my Neil Diamond." / Betty |
" I can't give it up." / Carl |
"To be the creator of it is to participate directly in that point of coherence of the earth, of the universe, of humanity, of meaning; all else is darkness." / Charles |
"I like mood tapes, subliminals, and new age music. That really sets me free." / Karen |
"As I developed from childhood to adulthood, the music developed with me." / Keith |
"...if I don't think of music in terms of dance, I'll think of it in terms of colors." / Wanda |
"...if I don't know it perfectly, I won't do it." / Stan |
Older Adults: "I actually become what I hear." / Richard |
"...country and western is the only... adult music" / Stella |
"It can make you cry, and then other times it can really perk you up." / Sally |
"...the types of music that sells today is for that age group that really doesn't care about the words." / Frances |
"...if I were home cleaning by myself during the day I might put Pavarotti on and have it shaking to the rafters!" / Violet |
"Regardless of what it is, somebody likes it." / James |
"I would say thirty percent of what I know about life today was gleaned from songs." / Steve |
Elders: "...when I was in the service, when we had the band playing, it instilled a lot of things in you." / Ken |
"When you sing, you pray twice." / Anthony |
"...if anybody wanted to dance at a party I was at the piano." / Elaine |
"Well, I was beautiful then and, boy, could I dance." / Helen |
"It takes the fear away from you." / Samuel |
Apendix: Music in Daily Life Guidelines / Charles Keil |
Index |
Foreward / George Lipsitz |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction |