Musical Childhoods of Asia and the Pacific agglomerates stories of youngchildren's music and musicking from around Southeast Asia and the Pacific.A collection of truly unique traditions are interrogated through a variety ofcontemporary methodologies. Readers are privileged to hear aboutchildren's musical worlds from children, mothers' musical worlds from mothers, a struggle to engage with musicin a closed society, and new gender politics, among other stories. Researchers share experiences and insightsgained from applying their chosen methodologies and add to the debate that shapes the continually transformingdomain of music education research.Musical Childhoods builds on the diverse inquiry presented in the first three volumes in the series. This volumeis an important addition to the libraries of colleges of education and schools of music, as well as music scholarsand educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned withadvancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of musicteaching and learning