Why is so much children's music tinny and vapid? We here at The Bookish Dad believe that children deserve better – and that they will appreciate the richness of civilization's musical heritage if we give them the opportunity to experience it.
Among my very favorite children’s books is a beautiful Dutch work by Charlotte Dematons called Holland op z’n mooist, Op reis met de Haagse School (Holland at Its Best: Traveling with the Hague School). Despite its title, the anglophone parent need not fear...
The basic idea of culture is that people enjoying expressing themselves through certain media - music, poems, legends, paintings, jokes, histories, clothing, sculptures, cooking - and that other people also enjoy the fruits of that expression...
