Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Whose Magic Flute? Intimations of Reality at the Gates of the Enlightenment -- 2 How Could Chopin's A-Major Prelude Be Deconstructed? -- 3 Toward a Deconstruction of Structural Listening: A Critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky -- 4 The Closing of the American Dream? A Musical Perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and Doing the Right Thing -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Inventory of Endnotes in Chapter 4 Referring to Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.