1. Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood

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This book examines how Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart shaped the social and cultural reevaluation of childhood during the Austrian Enlightenment.

2. Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth

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An immensely rich contribution to childhood studies showing how children are socialized into the musical life of their communities.

3. Tween Pop: children's music and public culture

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Examones the creation of the "tween" in the early 2000s as a gendered and raced consumer audience and the relationship to pop music.

4. Revolutionizing children's records: the Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild series 1946-1977

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This book is a history of the first commercially significant record clubs in the world - two related companies: Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild - and how they intersected important developments in the histories of mass marketing, recording technology, educational philosophy, folk music, contemporary composition, and Cold War politics.

5. Spinning the Child: musical constructions of childhood through records, radio and television

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Drawing on a range of case studies, this book examines music for children on records, radio and television by assessing how ideals of entertainment, education, 'the child' and 'the family' have been communicated.