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Series Editor’s Foreword - Daniel Albright -- Preface - John Xiros Cooper -- PART I: Eliot and Popular Musical Culture -- I A Jazz-Banjorine, Not a Lute: Eliot and Popular Music before The Waste Land - David Chinttz -- 2 Culture, Race, Rhythm: Sweeney Agonistes and the Live Jazz Break - Kevin McNeilly -- 3 Raising Life to a Kind of Art: Eliot and Music Hall - Jonna Mackin -- 4 Protective Coloring: Modernism and Blackface Minstrelsy in the Bob Poems - Jonathan Gill -- 5 Thinking with Your Ears: Rhapsody, Prelude, Song in Eliot’s Early Lyrics - John Xiros Cooper -- PART II: You Are the Music -- 6 Eliot’s Impossible Music - Brad Bucknell -- 7 Eliot’s Ars Musica Poerica: Sources in French Symbolism - John A dames -- PART III: Eliot and the Composers -- 8 The Pattern from the Palimpsest: Convergences of Eliot, Tippelt, and Shakespeare - Suzanne Robinson -- 9 Movements in Time: Four Quarters and the Late String Quarets of Beethoven - David Barndollar -- 10 “My God, What Has Sound Got to Do with Music?!” Interdisciplinarity in Eliot and Ives - J. Robert Browning -- 11 Benjamin Britten and T. S. Eliot: Entre Deux Guerres and After - C. F Pond -- 12 Reading Aloud and Composing: Two Ways of Hearing a Poem - David Banks -- 13 Orchestrating The Waste Land: Wagner, Leitmotiv, and the Play of Passion - Maigaret E. Dana -- 14 A Tale of Two Artists: Eliot, Stravinsky, and Disciplinary (Tm )Politics - Javine Stayer -- Checklist of Musical Settings of Eliot’s Wrks - Brent E. Whirred and Andrew Shenron -- Contributors -- Index.
John Xiros Cooper is an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two books on T. S. Eliot: T S. Eliot and the Politics of Voice and T S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets. He has also published articles and book chapters on Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, David Jones, Joseph Conrad, and modernism.