Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at the University of Oklahoma.

• Preface; Introduction: popular music and the experience of modernism; Part I. Musical Modernism: Popular Music in the Time of Jazz: 1. Classical modernity and popular music; 2. Twentieth-century modernism and 'jazz' music; Part II. Gershwin, Porter, Waller, and Holiday: 3. Melting pot and meeting place: the Gershwin brothers and the arts of quotation; 4. 'What is this thing called love?': Cole Porter and the rhythms of desire; 5. Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazz; 6. Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performance; Postscript: popular music and the revolution of the word; Bibliography; Index.

Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at the University of Oklahoma.

• Preface; Introduction: popular music and the experience of modernism; Part I. Musical Modernism: Popular Music in the Time of Jazz: 1. Classical modernity and popular music; 2. Twentieth-century modernism and 'jazz' music; Part II. Gershwin, Porter, Waller, and Holiday: 3. Melting pot and meeting place: the Gershwin brothers and the arts of quotation; 4. 'What is this thing called love?': Cole Porter and the rhythms of desire; 5. Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazz; 6. Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performance; Postscript: popular music and the revolution of the word; Bibliography; Index.

Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at the University of Oklahoma.

• Preface; Introduction: popular music and the experience of modernism; Part I. Musical Modernism: Popular Music in the Time of Jazz: 1. Classical modernity and popular music; 2. Twentieth-century modernism and 'jazz' music; Part II. Gershwin, Porter, Waller, and Holiday: 3. Melting pot and meeting place: the Gershwin brothers and the arts of quotation; 4. 'What is this thing called love?': Cole Porter and the rhythms of desire; 5. Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazz; 6. Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performance; Postscript: popular music and the revolution of the word; Bibliography; Index.