Introduction. Defining the New Cultural History of Music: Its Origins, Current Directions and Methodologies ; Jane F. Fulcher ; PART I: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ITS EXPRESSION: CONSTRUCTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND EXCHANGES ; Constructions or Representations of the Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Race ; 1. A Woman's Place: Antiphons and Responsories for Virgin Martyrs in the Office ; James Borders ; 2. Music, Violence, and the Stakes of Listening ; Richard Leppert ; 3. Music and Pain ; Andreas Dorschel ; Subjectivity and the Shaping of the Self in Society ; 4. The Road into the Open: from Narrative Closure to the Endless Performance of Subjectivity in Mahler and Freud at the Turn of the Century ; John Toews ; 5. Understanding Schoenberg as Christ ; Julie Brown ; 6. The Strange Landscape of Middles ; Michael Beckermann ; Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Trans-Nationalism ; 7. The Genre of National Opera in European Comparative Perspective ; Philipp Ther ; 8. Cosmopolitan, National, and Regional Identities in European Musical Life ; William Weber ; 9. Mendelssohn on the Road: Music, Travel, and the Anglo-German Symbiosis ; Celia Applegate ; Popular and Elite Cultural Intersections or Exchanges ; 10. Shooting the Keys: Musical Horseplay and High Culture ; Charles Garrett ; 11. Yvette Guilbert and the Revaluation of the Chanson populaire and Chanson ancienne during the Third Republic, 1889-1914 ; Jacqueline Waeber ; 12. Remembrance of Jazz Past: Sidney Bechet in France ; Andy Fry ; PART II: CULTURAL EXPERIENCE: PRACTICES, APPROPRIATIONS, AND ; EVALUATIONS ; Urban, Aural, and Print Culture ; 13. An Evening at the Opera in 17th-Century Venice ; Edward Muir ; 14. Josquin des Prez, Renaissance Historiography and the Cultures of Print ; Kate van Orden ; 15. From 'the Voice of the Marechal' to Musique Concrete: Pierre Schaeffer and the Case for Cultural History ; Jane F. Fulcher ; Symbols, Icons, and Sites of Collective Memory or Ritual ; 16. A Matter of Style: State Sacrificial Music and Cultural-Political Discourse in Southern Song China (1127-1279) ; Joseph S.C. Lam ; 17. Ernani Hats: Opera as a Repertory of Political Symbols during the Risorgimento ; Carlotta Sorba ; 18. Modalities of National Identity: Sibelius Builds a First Symphony ; James Hepokoski ; Politics, Aesthetics, and Transmission ; 19. Beethoven, Napoleon, and Political Romanticism ; Leon Plantinga ; 20. Translating Herder Translating: Cultural Translation and the Making of Modernity ; Philip Bohlman ; 21. The Eye of the Needle: Music as History after the Era of Recording ; Leon Botstein ; Afterward: Whose Culture? Whose History? Whose Music? ; Michael P. Steinberg ; Index