CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Main Title -- Untitled -- Tunes for Toons: A Cartoon Music Primer -- Part I: An Episodic History of Cartoon Music -- Animated Cartoons and Slap-Stick Comedy -- Make Walt's Music: Music for Disney Animation, 1928-1967 -- An Interview with Carl Stalling -- Hidey Hidey Hidey Ho . . . Boop-Boop-a-Doop! The Fleischer Studio and Jazz Cartoons -- I Love to Hear a Minstrel Band: Walt Disney's The Band Concert -- Disney, Stokowski, and the Genuis of Fantasia -- Music and the Animated Cartoon* -- Classical Music and Hollywood Cartoons: A Primer on the Cartoon Canon -- Music in Cartoons -- Personality on the Soundtrack: A Glimpse Behind the Scenes and Sequences in Filmland -- Make Mine Music and the End of the Swing Era -- Sublime Perversity: The Music of Carl Stalling -- Carl Stalling, Improviser & Bill Lava, Acme Minimalist -- Raymond Scott: Accidental Music for Animated Mayhem -- Winston Sharples and the "Inner Casper" (or Huey Has Two Mommies) -- An Interview with Hoyt Curtin -- Rock 'n' Roll Cartoons -- "Put One Note in Front of the Other": The Music of Maury Laws -- Part II: Cartoon Music Today -- Merrie Melodies: Cartoon Music's Contemporary Resurgence -- An Interview with Mark Mothersbaugh -- Robots, Romance, and Ronin: Music in Japanese Anime -- An Interview with Richard Stone, Steve Bernstein, and Julie Bernstein -- An Interview with Alf Clausen -- I Kid Because I Love: The Music of The Simpsons -- An Interview with John Zorn -- Rhapsody in Spew: Romantic Underscores in The Ren & Stimpy show -- Untitled -- End Title -- A Very Visual Kind of Music: The Cartoon Soundtrack Beyond the Screen -- Cartoon Music: A Select Discography -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.