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"Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood" by Adeline Mueller is a book that critically examines Mozart's early successes and their impact on the concept of childhood. Mueller explores how Mozart contributed to the reconceptualization of childhood and the reshaping of attitudes towards children in Europe, particularly in the Habsburg Empire. The book is organized around mediating themes such as reason, industriousness, virtue, work and play, familial affection, and the childlike. Mueller's research is based on extensive archival material and offers a transdisciplinary perspective, drawing from musicology, Enlightenment studies, childhood studies, and histories of print. The book provides valuable insights into the history of music education, children's literature, print culture, theater, the Enlightenment, and the history of childhood in the eighteenth century. [Extracted from the article]

"How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism" by Ford Risley and Ashley Walter is a concise and readable resource that provides a comprehensive overview of the history of American journalism. The book highlights the contributions of diverse individuals, including Native Americans, enslaved persons, and women, to the development of American journalism. It also explores important topics such as photojournalism, the woman's suffrage movement, journalistic objectivity, and the impact of technology on the news industry. The final chapter focuses on the digital era and its effects on conservative media, business models, and American democracy. This book is recommended for undergraduate journalism students and can be used as a foundational text in journalism classes. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines the depiction of African American life and African American social death in Terrance Hayes' poems "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin." It expounds on blackness as the embodiment of social death and the continuing afterlife of slavery and explores the role of antiblackness in organizing American reality for African American and white identities, the relationship between antiblackness and white supremacy, and the possibilities of contesting antiblackness.

In the nineteenth century when the flageolet appeared as part of a larger ensemble, it was treated as a special, one-time solo instrument on the program, a colorful feature number, usually as an obbligato instrument or as part of a medley. Flageolets are close relations of many whistle-type instruments still used in music education today in the US and in other countries, the recorder and the flutophone especially, and from the late 1930s the tonette, a so-called "pre-band" instrument. His book, I The Flageolet in England 1660-1914 i , is the culmination of long scholarly attention to fipple flutes, especially the flageolet and the recorder. [Extracted from the article]

Although writing studies scholars have used many methodologies to study these topics and to create sustainable change initiatives, institutional ethnography (IE), which seeks to uncover how things happen, may best equip us for this important work. In the Introduction, LaFrance outlines the methodological similarities and differences between IE and ethnography, a popular methodology in writing studies. Engaging with Rebecca Rickly's (2008) definitions of method and methodology, LaFrance claims that IE can be both a means for data collection and also a larger structure for theorizing writing research. Throughout these case studies, LaFrance illustrates institutional scenarios writing scholars can relate to, providing a methodology for writing studies scholars to discover how individual work relates to broader institutional contexts. [Extracted from the article]