National Children's Folksong Repository
PRESERVE OUR AMERICAN VERNACULAR SONGS - OUR ORAL CULTURE
FUN FOR THE FAMILY & FUN FOR EVERYONE
BE A PATRIOT AND SAVE OUR HISTORY
SONGS GO INTO THE NCFR LIBRARY
Technology might not be what kills hand-clapping games.
Instead it could be what saves them.
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Phone-o-folk song. Phone-o-phonic. Phone-o-funk.
It's a game song or game chant that you phone in
but it ain't phony.
GET SMART
YOU MAKE HISTORY
ONLY YOU
CAN SAVE
WHAT IS LEFT.
In 1973 Karen Ellis was the first person in the U.S. to get her Level III Orff Certificate having been taught music with the Orff Schulwerk pedagogy as a child while attending 5th grade at Oak Lane Day School by the Fanabel Kremins who was the first Orff teacher in America!!
Please call 1-276-633-0388 & your American Game Songs, Playground Poetry, Folk Songs, jump rope chants, kiddy rhymes , circle games, play parties, call and response songs , lullaby's - using your cell phone, or computer.
Find the National Children's Folksong Repository of Children's
Songs, their indigenous playground poetry. U.S. Online Library to
Record American folksongs, jump rope chants, rhymes, songs, using
your ipod, phone, or computer.
Children are Cultural Primitives.
Their own culture is FABULOUS!
What Has Happened to Recess
and why Recess is good for kids. listen 52:00
Anna Beresin was one of 2 guests who was interviewed on Radio
Times about her ongoing research with importance of children's
play and recess. A very articulate excellent show.
The child world is a coherent primitive culture
lying right at our door. THIS is the hidden civilization of
childhood, the all child-originated culture, the skip rope songs,
counting out rhymes, parodies, singing verses, superstitions, of
children themselves. We do not want to see the Adults pushing
their "brand" adult melody, copyrighted, DRM, made up songs onto
the kids through CD's, websites, and MP3's.
Their ears and bodies need to be left alone, unmolested by adult
intervention, and commercial branding efforts. We want kids to
teach each other the songs they make up themselves - they don't
need adults involved in this process.
Their brains need to be grooved and made ready for reading by
doing what they have have always been doing by themselves through
evolution. What kids can do with technoloy is collect their own
songs and share them online, then feel free to download new ones
to share with their friends. Not only are they spread, they do
spread right now!
GESTURE / RHYTHM & READING
Hand Jive
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Hand and Speech
Let's Get the Rhythm
2014 | 53 min
Discover the power of Miss Mary Mack! Explore the history of
hand-clapping games on playgrounds around the world. Through wars
and migrations, across language barriers and oceans, young girls
connect with each other through thousands of variants—ancient as
they are global. The film chronicles these rhythmic and
recreational practices. Guided by three eight-year-olds from
diverse cultural backgrounds in the New York area, it is a
charming and beautiful survey with universal insight into the
budding social mind.
We are often so busy with the details of living that we forget to
look inside. Let's Get the Rhythm focuses on girls' handclapping
games to awaken awareness of the rhythmic designs that influence
our lives. The legacy of the past is interwoven with our
experience of the present. Childhood rituals provide a foundation
for cooperation, collaboration and friendship. Even something as
simple as handclapping games can give us strength and help us
honor the beauty of being present, and provide us with the courage
to continue with a positive attitude." - Irene Chagall and Steve
Zeitlin
5/9/14 Gestures research suggests language instinct in young children
GESTURE, THE ORAL TRADITION & SYNCRONY
EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE
& CULTURE
60's Soul Music Is All About Human Syncrony
THE Oral & Aural Tradition is the Heartbeat of Culture
Consider
William Condon
's observation of conversational synchrony, that
motions and gestures
of listeners are closely synchronized with the rhythms of a
speakers voice.
The body is wired for perfect time.
Friends,
If you are interested in Arts Education, Children's Health, and
Society the National Children's Folksong Repository is a public
folklore project will preserve what is left of our oral culture.
Children in the United States aren't singing the songs of their
heritage, an omission that puts the nation in jeopardy of losing
a longstanding and rich part of its identity.
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Yes You Can
Make a Difference
For Social Goodness.
Believe
You care. We care.
Amazingness.
Invite Your Friends
OUR OWN
"JOHNNY APPLE SOUND SEEDS"
You can just GIVE YOUR SONG
and help SAVE YOUR CULTURE.
2014 Who is U2? Proof that your music will be forgotten too! The point being time marches forward every day, and what is big today will almost certainly be forgotten tomorrow. Even the Beatles. That's how the world works. Could this be the future? That which expires draws our attention?
- SUPPORT NCFR
- DONATE YOUR SONG
- FIND FOLKSONGS
- FIND GAME SONGS
- BALLADS SPREAD LITERACY
SUPPORT NCFR
BE A PATRIOT AND SAVE OUR HISTORY
Silver and gold will rot away but a good education will never
decay.
2009 An urgent initiative to document and make accessible
endangered oral literatures before they disappear without
record. For many communities around the world, the transmission
of oral literature from one generation to the next lies at the
heart of cultural practice. These creative works—which include
ritual texts, curative chants, epic poems, musical genres, folk
tales, creation tales, songs, myths, legends, word games, life
histories or historical narratives—are increasingly endangered.
Globalisation and rapid socio-economic change exert complex
pressures on smaller communities, often eroding expressive
diversity and transforming culture through assimilation to more
dominant ways of life. As vehicles for the transmission of
unique cultural knowledge, local languages encode oral
traditions that become threatened when elders die and
livelihoods are disrupted.
"Schools often only see playground rhymes as an encroachment
into literacy, they're only interested in seeing the playground
as a problem, not as a stimulus to literacy."
FROM THE MEAT SPACE PLAYGROUND TO THE CYBERPLAYGROUND
History of NCFR 1976 - 2006 JOURNEY
2) WATCH A 3 SHORT VIDEOS LEARN THE REASONS TO DONATE YOUR
SONGS:
Allan Lomax
explains the Saga of a Song Hunter.
COMMMUNICATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE 2 WAYS:
Lomax says: [...]Our job is to represent all the submerged cultures in the world. The slogan is: "Every Culture with it's equal time on the air and in the classroom". Cultural equity should join all the other important principals of: human dignity, freedom of speech, freedom of movement freedom to work and enjoy yourself and freedom of your culture to express itself. Cause that's all we have you know [...]
Beginning
Middle
End
Work songs
[9:31 - 9:33] weaving songs (stretching the tweed)
[9:49] Spanish Spinning song
[9:33] Work Songs - hammer stone quarry driving in wedges,
Shanty Man, Gang Leader, Roll the old chariots along root of
american railroad work songs.
[9:35] Texas Penitentary Song When that man in the White House
can hear how sweet I can drum he sure gonna let me go
Most interesting of all our own Folk Music Good Night Irene
-Ledbelly
[9:37] and [9:41] Go down Old Hannah first recording for the
Library of Congress
[9:38] and [9:40]
Michael Taft
speaks about the forms of discs and about field recordings
[9:42] Explanation about the view of learned society, the
snobish upper class and how Lomax made the nation understand the
worth of culture from all people, that even poor people's
culture has value and is as good as the other culture.
9:43 Pete Seeger explains Alan was 22 years old and in charge of
cataloging music and he did it all in 6 years.
9:50 Songs carry the Culture of the people, you have the spirit
of the place and the person, in all these songs all the
fragments, what you have is the history of the people and the
memory of the people, its how they feel about so many things and
its the wonder of the language not written down just passed down
thru the centuries from mind to mind is a miracle.
9:55
Spanish Folksong Style - No one asks why there are bagpipes in
Spain?
Bagpipe - the piper doesn't live to far from here Galicia road
to colambria recorded in the middle of the night in a bar work
song cutting the rye, cutting the straw.
Dr. Alan Jabbour Integrating Folk Music, Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education
DONATE YOUR SONG: HOW TO SEND YOUR FOLKSONGS OR PLAYGROUND GAME SONGS / CHANTS
1. HOW TO EMAIL THEM TO THE NCFR PROJECT
2. U.S. RESIDENTS CALL TOLL FREE AND LEAVE THEM ON THE PHONE
1-276-633-0388
Please record your American Playground Poetry - the circle games, jump rope games - songs and chants , kiddy rhymes , play parties, call and response songs AND folk songs.
FIND THE FOLKSONGS
UF STUDY:
CHILDREN'S KNOWLEDGE GAP OF FOLK SONGS THREATENS OUR HERITAGE
Children in the United States aren't singing the songs of their heritage, an omission that puts the nation in jeopardy of losing a longstanding and rich part of its identity.
Find out your state rank.
FIND GAME SONGS
FIND PLAYGROUND GAME SONGS
Indigenous playground poetry - American folksongs, jump rope chants, rhymes, songs. It is the U.S. Online Library where you can Record using your ipod, phone, or computer.
Collect Playground Poetry Classroom Activity
Find video example that we can include Pizza Pizza Daddy -o
1890--Jesse Walter Fewkes records the Passamaquoddy Indians off
the coast of Maine. This is the first field use of the
newly-invented recording machine.
54 Ring Game Songs From the Library of Congress 1980s.
PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
HEAR FROM USIP.edu COLLEAGUES
BALLADS SPREAD LITERACY
HOW BALLADS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING LITERACY.
The Roots of Print, Power, Politics, Literacy, Ballads, Plays, Thought and failed Censorship. Who is allowed to write? Who is allowed to read? Who is allowed to hear? Who is allowed to print? Who is allowed to publish!
Why Use Playground Game Chants to Teach Reading
PLAY IS SERIOUS WORK for the young and old from the novice to the experienced. RESEARCH PDF It's about all the different ways we play to learn. Larger brains are linked to greater levels of play. In other words, playing makes you intelligent. Rich or poor, young or old, male or female, play has evolved to shape the overall architecture and to build big brains, explaining why children need the playground just as much as the classroom.