Literatura y juego: Las canciones escenificadas infantiles

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the content and structure of stagey childrensongs (skipping, rows, swing, playing a game standing in a ring...). These songs areconsidered to be orally-transmitted compositions, necessarily accompanied by an actionthat requires either staging or specific body language. I focus on those songs that containpopular and traditional ballads, or parts thereof. Reference is also made to the gradualdisappearance of these compositions and the impact of this fact on the way childrenlearn them nowadays, before they are put into writing.