Terry Teachout is drama critic for the Wall Street Journal, music critic for Commentary, and a contributor to the Washington Post, for which he writes "Second City," a column about the arts in New York City
Introduction: Across the Great Divide,
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PART ONE AMERICAN WAYFARERS
Far from Ohio: Dawn Powell,
3
(4)
Father Babbitt's Flock,
7
(9)
The Conversion of Tom Wolfe,
16
(4)
Merce Cunningham: Pale Horse, Pale Rider,
20
(10)
Notes Toward the Definition of Paul Taylor,
30
(5)
Stephen Sondheim's Unsettled Scores,
35
(12)
What Randolph Scott Knew,
47
(8)
That Wascally Pwofessor,
55
(3)
Louis Armstrong, Eminent Victorian,
58
(6)
Bill Monroe and His Discontents,
64
(4)
Citizen Sinatra,
68
(7)
PART TWO MIDCULTISTS
Seven Hundred Pretty Good Books,
75
(16)
Sentimental Journey,
91
(4)
Norman Mailer: Forgotten but Not Gone,
95
(4)
Real Cool Killers,
99
(3)
Crosby Major, Crosby Minor,
102
(10)
That Nice Elvis Boy,
112
(4)
High Anxiety: Martha Graham,
116
(8)
Choreography by Jerome Robbins,
124
(10)
How Good Was Leonard Bernstein?
134
(13)
Brand-Name Opera,
147
(7)
The David Helfgott Show,
154
(8)
Classical Barbie,
162
(5)
Angelic Disorders,
167
(4)
The Land of No Context,
171
(3)
The Myth of "Classic" TV,
174
(4)
Battle of the Brows,
178
(7)
Good Night, David,
185
(8)
PART THREE DOWN TO THE CROSSROADS
Inner Chambers,
193
(8)
The Great American Composer,
201
(10)
The Man Who Watched Bogart,
211
(7)
Scoundrel Time,
218
(3)
Cradle of Lies,
221
(10)
Willa Cather: No Way to Treat a Lady,
231
(4)
Another Sun Person Heard From,
235
(9)
The Color of Jazz,
244
(11)
(Over)praising Duke Ellington,
255
(8)
Sins of the Fathers,
263
(4)
The Anti-Victim: Arlene Croce,
267
(6)
PART FOUR POST-POSTMODERN
Life with Camille,
273
(4)
Tolstoy's Contraption,
277
(4)
Is That All There Is?
281
(4)
Beasts and Superbeasts,
285
(4)
Whit Stillman, Class Clown,
289
(5)
Pictures of Words: John Sayles,
294
(4)
The Tilt-a-World of David Ives,
298
(5)
The New New Music,
303
(9)
Death of the Concert,
312
(8)
Life Without Records,
320
(15)
Three Roads to American Opera,
335
(8)
After Mr. B,
343
(11)
Going a Lot to the Mark Morris Dance Group,
354
(7)
At Full Blast,
361
(10)
PART FIVE PERSONALS
The Importance of Being Less Earnest,
371
(5)
I've Got a Crush on You,
376
(4)
Elegy for the Woodchopper,
380
(14)
Close to Home,
394
(4)
My Friend Nancy,
398
(11)
About the Author,
409
(2)
Index,
411
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