More than 400 women have been murdered in and around Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past decade. As the murders continue unabated and unsolved, and with the likely complicity of state authorities, they have triggered a dynamic cultural response from writers, filmmakers, singers, and others who deplore the murders while suggesting the underlying…

Edgar Snow scored an extraordinary scoop in 1936 when he persuaded Mao Zedong to tell his story. The resulting book--"Red Star Over China"--was a best-seller in the West and translated editions caused a sensation in China. Adult education was the centrepiece of Communist revolution and featured prominently in Red Star. It is now the…

This study investigated the extent to which word games and culturally relevant songs and stories could motivate senior secondary school students in Nigeria, thereby enhancing their performance in English. A pre-test/post-test control group design was used. The sample consisted of 100 senior secondary school II students randomly assigned into…

This project was developed and implemented to help increase knowledge of singing performance by targeted fourth grade students as well as to increase their self assessment abilities. The project also was designed to improve parent/guardian understanding of singing performance. The study was conducted in a southwestern classroom of 26 students. The…

Article focused on improving communication between the private voice teacher and the high school choral director. (Editor/RK)

Using the analogy of language syntax, this paper describes the development of music syntax in children ages 5 months to 5 years. It is suggested that music syntax enables the child to comprehend familiar and unfamiliar music and to reproduce familiar music and create novel music. Observations were made in a day care center and a nursery school of…

The songs in this collection of Hawaiian traditional and Christmas songs are postmissionary and owe their musical origin to missionary hymns dating from the mid-1850's to 1968. Nearly all are sung often today and are well known to Hawaiian singers. Many have not been translated before. Each song appears in Hawaiian and English, prefaced by brief…

Songs designed for use with the University of Hawaii curriculum, "Music for Preschool," are presented alphabetically with the recommended level for introduction of each song included after its title. Instructions for using the songs in the preschool program are found in the curriculum manual. There are specific suggestions for using the songs in…

Every child can be a star if the right musical is selected. (Editor)

Most choral directors in schools today have been exposed to a variety of warm-up procedures. Yet, many do not use the warm-up time effectively as possible. Considers the factors appropriate to a warm-up exercise and three basic warm-up categories. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the relationships among sight-reading ability and selected variables for 20 high school choirs. Results showed that the best predictors of sight-reading ability are ethnic makeup of the school, presence of a piano in the home, a rural school location, and occasional use of rote procedures to teach music. (JDH)

Forty elementary school music teachers who regularly taught chorus were assigned to either treatment or control groups. The treatment group received programed instruction with adjunct listening examples on the vocal development of children's choruses. Posttests of chorus performance after a 10-week implementation period showed no significant…