Professional Background
Associate Professor of Music Education and Program Coordinator
Educational Background
Bachelor of Music, University of Redlands
M.A., California State University
D.M.A., University of Southern California
Scholarly Interests
Music in the lives of young children and families.
Contextual influences on music learning.
Musical engagement and development.
Selected Publications
Custodero, L. A. Britto, P. R., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2003). Musical lives: A collective portrait of American families. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24(5). 553-572. Custodero, L. A., & Johnson Green, E. A. (2003). Passing the cultural torch: Musical experience and musical parenting of infants. Journal of Research in Music Education, 51(2), 102-114. Custodero, L. A. (2003). Perceptions of challenge: A longitudinal investigation of children's music learning. Arts and Learning, 19, 23-53. Custodero, L. A. (2002). The musical lives of young children: Inviting, seeking, initiating. Journal of Zero-to-Three. 23(1), 4-9. Custodero, L. A., Britto, P. R., & Xin, T. (2002). From Mozart to Motown, lullabies to love songs: A preliminary report on the Parents Use of Music with Infants Survey. Journal of Zero-to-Three 23(1), 41-46. Custodero, L. (2002). Seeking challenge, finding skill: Flow experience in music education. Arts Education and Policy Review, 103 (3), 3-9. Custodero, L. & Williams, L. (2000). Music for everyone: Creating contexts for possibility in early childhood education. Early Childhood Connections, 6 (4) 36-43. Custodero, L. (1998). Observing flow in young people's music learning. General Music Today, 12 (1), 21-27. Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Custodero, L. A. (2002). Forward. In T. Sullivan & L. Willingham, Eds. Creativity and music education (pp xiv-xvi). Edmonton: Canadian Music Educators' Association.
Lori Custodero
Associate Professor of Music Education
Program Coordinator
Phone: 212-678-3467
Email:
Office Hours: Fall 2009 Tuesday and Wednesday 3:00pm – 4:30pm email lcoh@tc.edu for appointment
Office Location: 517 HM