Susan D. Crafts & Daniel Cavicchi 
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Explorations of Music in Daily Life

<P>Foreward by George Lipsitz<BR>Acknowledgements<BR>Introduction<BR>Children: Heather, ‘I dance to ‘Dude Looks Like a Lady’.'<BR>Johnnie, ‘You have to have a lullaby before you sleep.'<BR>Carley, ‘I just play with my songs&#8230;'<BR>Billy, ‘I was stuck in the snow cave, and I felt like listening to music.'<BR>Jennie, ‘They teach us so that we know what to do with our kids when we grow up.'<BR>Molly, ‘I like to look for things that people don’t really recognize.'<BR>Teenagers: Lisa, ‘What would the human ear do&#8230;?'<BR> Matthew, ‘ They play weird songs you have to be so old to know.'<BR>Connie, ‘ Rap is things you say fast.'<BR>Edwardo, ‘Sometimes I think about life, and all the problems I have.'<BR>May, ‘I still have my violin from when I was five.'<BR>Anita, ‘I listen to other music and then I go see the Dead.'<BR>Young Adults: Beth, ‘It’s the first remedy for trying to get out of my boredom.'<BR>Mabel ‘&#8230; if I were to cuss someone out right after church, what does my singing mean?'<BR>Alan, ‘I’m not gonna sit there and worship someone.'<BR>Abby, ‘ It’s about aggression.'<BR>Rhonda, ‘Roger Waters is really it for me.'<BR>Gail ‘It’s hard to explain&#8230;it’s all feelings and emotions&#8230;'<BR>Victor, ‘They feel it more because they created the instrument.'<BR>Chad, ‘It is not the making sound&#8230;it is how one nation expresses its opinion.'<BR>Adults: Neil, ‘Music is just part of life, like air.'<BR> Ralph, ‘It’s a kind of critiquing&#8230;an enjoyable critiquing.'<BR>Betty, ‘&#8230;I can’t wait to come home and get back to my Neil Diamond.'<BR>Carl, ‘ I can’t give it up.'<BR>Charles, ‘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.'<BR>Karen, ‘I like mood tapes, subliminals, and new age music. That really sets me free.'<BR>Keith, ‘As I developed from childhood to adulthood, the music developed with me.'<BR>Wanda, ‘&#8230;if I don’t think of music in terms of dance, I’ll think of it in terms of colors.'<BR>Stan, ‘&#8230;if I don’t know it perfectly, I won’t do it.'<BR>Older Adults: Richard, ‘I actually become what I hear.'<BR>Stella, ‘&#8230;country and western is the only&#8230; adult music'<BR>Sally, ‘It can make you cry, and then other times it can really perk you up.'<BR>Frances, ‘&#8230;the types of music that sells today is for that age group that really doesn’t care about the words.'<BR>Violet, ‘&#8230;if I were home cleaning by myself during the day I might put Pavarotti on and have it shaking to the rafters!'<BR>James, ‘Regardless of what it is, somebody likes it.'<BR>Steve, ‘I would say thirty percent of what I know about life today was gleaned from songs.'<BR>Elders: Ken, ‘&#8230;when I was in the service, when we had the band playing, it instilled a lot of things in you.'<BR>Anthony, ‘When you sing, you pray twice.'<BR>Elaine, ‘&#8230;if anybody wanted to dance at a party I was at the piano.'<BR>Helen, ‘Well, I was beautiful then and, boy, could I dance.'<BR>Samuel, ‘It takes the fear away from you.'<BR>Apendix: Music in Daily Life Guidelines by Charles Keil<BR>Index</P>