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This work explores the aesthetic import of children\u2019s play songs among the Bukusu of Bungoma County, Kenya. Children find pleasure in learning through imitation of societal virtues; this lies in the process of imitation, implying that as these children perform the play songs, they simultaneously acquire societal values at the same time they find pleasure in the composition and performance of the play songs. This study aimed at achieving three objectives: establishing the role of context in the composition and performance of Bukusu children\u2019s play songs, examining the significance of language employed in the Bukusu children\u2019s play songs and analyzing the social significance of Bukusu children\u2019s play songs. It is important to recognize children\u2019s play songs as a vital genre that brings out societal values and organization. Since children are a product of societal values, their play songs cannot be separated from the same values. Therefore, this study serves as a stimuli for other researchers to view children\u2019s play songs not just as songs but as creative works thus study their role in the moral and social development of children. To do this, we employed an eclectic model in which performance, ethnomethodology and ethnopoetic approaches to investigate how the different perspectives from which Bukusu children\u2019s play songs are performed and interpreted. The study which is purely ethnographic was confined within Bungoma County, Kenya with participants drawn from Kabuchai, Sirisia and some parts of Kanduyi sub-counties. Both Purposive and snowball sampling were employed. Qualitative approaches were used in studying twenty children\u2019s play songs in \u201cLubukusu<\/em>\u201d. Data was collected through interviews, participant observation, video recording, photograph taking, note taking and the collected data was thematically analyzed and presented. Through this study, we can report that the social cultural context influences not only the composition but also the performance of the songs and usually different songs will almost always harbor disparate messages with specialized use of language aiding to bring out the beauty resident within these songs. We therefore recommend that songs in other communities be studied and that such songs should be documented for the purpose of conservation given their current vital yet risky status.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Student\u2019s Name: Wasilwa Machuma Sylvia Supervisors: 1. Felix A. Orina 2. Kennedy N. Simiyu Master of Arts in Comparative Literature ABSTRACT This work explores the aesthetic import of children\u2019s play songs among the Bukusu of Bungoma County, Kenya. 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