Acknowledgements Introduction: MyPlace, MyMusic: Children's Home Musical Experiences Across the World / Beatriz Ilari and Susan Young Section 1: Theoretical Framework and Methods 1. Musical Childhoods: Theoretical Background and New Directions / Susan Young 2. The MyPlace, MyMusic Wiki: Enabling and Transforming the Methods and Processes of Research / Jèssica Pérez Section 2: Thematic Interpretations 3. Public and Private Musical Worlds of Children / Claudia Gluschankof 4. Belonging and Identity: Exploring Gendered Meanings of Musicking in Seven-year-olds / Elizabeth Andang'o and Caroline Brendel Pacheco 5. Nurturing MY MUSICal Child: Parental Perspectives and Influences / Theano Koutsoupidou 6. Middle Class Musical Childhoods: Autonomy, Concerted Cultivation, and Consumer Culture / Beatriz Ilari Section 3: New Ideas 7. Nurturing the Musical "Open-Earedness" of Seven-year-olds / Diane Persellin 8.

Musical Childhoods in South Africa: "The times they are a-changin'" / Sheila C. Woodward 9. The Influence of Parental Goals and Practices on Children's Musical Interests and Development: A Perspective on Chinese Families in Singapore / Chee-Hoo Lum Conclusion: Lessons Learned / Beatriz Ilari, Susan Young, and Claudia Gluschankof List of References List of Contributors Index.