Songs, Ring Games, Clapping games from Jamaica's beautiful islands, this book is a magical resource for classroom teachers and music specialists! Jamaica Play includes translations, pronunciation guides, and complete directions for each activity. This treasure trove of children's music.
These traditional children's songs and games from Jamaica are being published here for the sake of posterity as well as for classroom use. Collected with the help of Marjorie Whylie, the highly respected ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, and master drummer, this collection sparkles with her incomparable breadth of performance skills and wealth of knowledge about Jamaica's cultural heritage.
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Supplemental materials include:
Full-color visuals.
Audio recordings of the pronunciation.
Songs recorded as modeled by Dawn and special contributor Marjorie Whylie.
Dawn Muir is a Canadian music educator of Jamaican parentage, whose teaching is enriched by graduate studies in education (M.Ed., Ontario Institute for Education; PhD, Cambridge), Level III Orff certification, and ongoing studies in world music (World Music Drumming Level 2, Jamaica School of Dance Summer School, South Indian Drumming - York University).