CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND MUSICAL STYLE -- 1 Erotic Representation from Monteverdi to Mae West -- 2 The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics -- PART TWO: IDEOLOGY AND THE POPULAR -- 3 The Native American in Popular Music -- 4 Incongruity and Predictability in British Dance Band Music of the 1920s and 1930s -- PART THREE: THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE -- 5 Lux in Tenebris: Bruckner and the Dialectic of Darkness and Light -- 6 Diabolus in Musica: Liszt and the Demonic -- PART FOUR: IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL OTHERNESS -- 7 Orientalism and Musical Style -- 8 The Impact of African-American Music Making on the European Classical Tradition in the 1920s -- 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.