Time, narrative, and memory. Narrative and narrativity in music ; Postmodernism, narrativity, and the art of memory ; Resituating the spectral revolution : French antecedents -- Self-fashioning. Deconstructing d'Indy, or the problem of a composer's reputation ; New music as confrontation : the musical sources of Cocteau's identity ; Inventing a tradition : John Cage's "Composition in retrospect" -- Identity and nation. Pelléas and power : forces behind the reception of Debussy's opera ; The ironies of gender, or virility and politics in the music of Augusta Holmès ; Race, orientalism, and distinction in the wake of the "Yellow peril" -- Patrons and patronage. Countess Greffulhe as entrepreneur : negotiating class, gender, and nation ; The political economy of composition in the American university, 1965-1985 -- The everyday life of the past. Concert programs and their narratives as emblems of ideology ; Material culture and postmodern positivism : rethinking the "popular" in late nineteenth-century French music.

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