Music of the Channel Islands for hundreds of years. Song in Jèrriais celebrates the language and its survival. Songs derived from French mark geographic identity and proximity to France, while songs derived from the UK and Ireland re-present Jersey's wider heritage. The development of tourism in the 19th century brought a demand for dance music in tea-rooms and hotels. Some local composers supplied songs and sheet music aimed at a tourist market. Claude Debussy composed part of "La Mer" in Jersey. John Ireland settled for a time in Guernsey. The Channel Islands Music Council was founded in 1974 to promote music in the islands. In
Lisa Guernsey Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens", was published in September 2015 and is co-written with Michael H. Levine of the Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Lisa Guernsey Lisa Guernsey (born April 6, 1971) is an American early education researcher, author, and former journalist. She is currently director of the Learning Technologies Project at New America, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. She is also deputy director of the organization's Education Policy Program. Guernsey is a former technology and education writer at "The New York Times". She has written for numerous other major publications including