Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Cultural History in Practice -- Part I: Readers & Critics -- 1. The Genteel Tradition at Large -- 2. The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers in Postwar America -- 3. Repossessing the Cozzens-Macdonald Imbroglio: Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America -- Part II: Composers, Conductors & Their Audiences -- 4. The Composer as a Reader: Poetry, Music, and the Politics of a Neglected Genre -- 5. Ideology and Practice in the Career of Robert Shaw -- 6. Gunther Schuller: The Musician as Mediator -- Conclusion: The Enduring Reader -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.