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Mozart as Snake Oil

It was the year 2009, and the Walt Disney Company was refunding DVDs because they did not make customers’ children geniuses.  Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Baby Einstein LLC’s educational videos were a juggernaut of American child-rearing. The company’s VHS tapes and DVDs like “Baby Bach” and “Baby Mozart” consisted of soothing videos […]

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