Rockers now play to sippy cup set - Nashville, Tennessee - Saturday, 01/20/07 - Tennessean.com: "[Dan] Zanes figures that parents search for cool children's music because, while Beatles and Shins records score melodically, as kids start to talk and understand words, there's a lyrical disconnect.
'The one thing that I think doesn't work or doesn't mean anything, particularly to kids, are themes of romantic love or sexual love — that's gonna be a stretch for any 3-year-old,' he says. 'So that rules out a lot of pop music right there.'
Kids music is throwback
To Zanes, it's not so much that intelligent children's music is a new trend; Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and others were making it more than a half-century back. The recent proliferation is more akin to a return.
'The idea of all ages participating in the music and enjoying the music, it's a fairly ancient concept,' Zanes says. 'I think the thing that's recent is that segregation — 'There are things that are for children, and then there's things that are for grown-ups.' We're just trying to get back into, 'What can you do that includes everybody? What's the most inclusive thing we could possibly do?'"
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