The Great American Songbooks shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts.

Acknowledgements ; A Note on Audio ; Series Editors' Foreword ; 1. Musical Literature, Its Theory and Practice ; Writing About Music ; Listening to Books ; Valuing Popular Culture ; 2. Songs Not In Thy Songs: Musical Forms and American Free Verse ; Leaves of Grass ; Eliot's Early Poetry and The Waste Land ; Linking Transcendentalism and Modernism ; 3. The Literary Soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Heard and Unheard Melodies ; This Side of Paradise ; The Beautiful and Damned ; The Great Gatsby ; 4. Make Them Black and Bid Them Sing: Musical Poetics, Racial Transformation, and the Harlem Renaissance ; Cane ; The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew ; The Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance ; 5. "Got Over": The Chorus Girl Novel and the Musical Stage ; Sister Carrie ; Manhattan Transfer ; U.S.A. and Beyond ; 6. The Bridge: Motifs in Contemporary Musical Fiction ; Bibliography ; Audio Guide ; Index