Table of Contents

List of Musical Examples and Figure 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 

1. Prospects
    Postmodernism and Musicology 
2. From the Other to the Abject
    Music as Cultural Trope 
3. Music and Representation
    In the Beginning with Haydn's Creation 
4. Musical Narratology
    A Theoretical Outline 
5. Felix Culpa
    Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Social Force of Musical Expression 
6. The Lied as Cultural Practice
    Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs 
7. Cultural Politics and Musical Form
    The Case of Charles Ives 
8. Consuming the Exotic
    Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe 
   
Epilogue 
Autonomy, Elvis, Cinders, Fingering Bach 

Appendix: Mendelssohn: Three Goethe Songs 
Notes 
Index 

About the Author

Lawrence Kramer teaches in the Humanities Department at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, and is an active composer. He has published two previous books with California: Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984) and Music as Cultural Practice (1990). Both are available in paperback.