thinks across disciplinary boundaries and embraces a wide variety of approaches to the analytical study of the musics of the world, including indigenous methodologies, post-colonial, critical and queer perspectives and different indigenous methodologies. In this, it provides scholars from a multiplicity of academic backgrounds a forum for the discussion of musics from around the world, their dynamics and their many meanings, manifested in a variety of ever changing forms ranging from highly particular and localized systems of musical thinking in traditional musics to global (musical) cultural flows and consumption. The World of Music is an international peer-reviewed journal seeking a critical understanding of performing arts and cultural practices involving music, dance and theater worldwide, as well as the many contexts in which they come into being. This exploration is based on a cross-cultural study of children's musical play entailing extensive periods of ethnographic fieldwork in predominantly multiethnic schools in the UK, Norway, USA, South Korea and in urban and remote locations in Australia. In particular, the intertextuality within these two linked performative traditions is explored. In children's dialogue with the media, cycles of appropriation emerge and similarities between the generative aesthetics of musical play and popular music can be identified. Children appropriate formulae from the adult world, drawing in particular on mediated sources for their material, but manipulating the source material as a form of resistance to and subversion of the hegemonies of the adult world.
In the course of oral transmission, these games are varied, often intentionally, through processes of formulaic construction.
For school-aged children in primary school playgrounds, genres of musical play include those that are part of an oral tradition, such as singing games, the sung and chanted games that are owned, performed and orally transmitted by children. Children's musical play is a spontaneous form of expression encompassing a range of forms which vary according to age and locality.
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