General Music Today, an online-only journal published three times a year, offers articles that describe successful practices, share teaching strategies and/or materials, suggest new ideas, or analyze issues of concern to general music education professionals teaching at levels from early childhood through high school.


The April 2009 issue, Body Language in General Music, includes

Editorials

•  From the Chair by Kimberly Inks

•  From the Editor: Body Language in General Music by Diane Persellin

Articles

•  Born to Hand Jive: Connecting Music, Dance, Culture, and Algebra by Brenda M. Wheat and Tracy Y. Hargrove

•  Body Parts, the Water Cycle, Plants, and Dolphins: Adventures in Primary-Grade Whole-Class Composing by Benjamin Bolden

•  Nonverbal Communication: Increasing Awareness in the General Music Classroom by Sharyn L. Battersby

•  The Urban Beat: Did I Grow Up Just to Stay Home? by Geoffrey A. Reynolds

•  From the Bookshelf: Jazzy Books for Jazz Month by Richard Ammon and Karla Silbaugh

•  Early Childhood: Literacy and Art in the Music Class: Young Children Read and Draw What They Sing by Susan Kenney

•  Special Learners: Barriers to Effective Inclusion and Strategies to Overcome Them by Alice-Ann Darrow

•  Technology: A New Role for Music Technology: Enhancing Literacy by Rachel Nardo

•  Multicultural Resources by J. Bryan Burton and Ann L. McFarland

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