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Foreword William Bolcom
Editors' Preface - Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, and Susan Forscher Weiss
PART 1. “What a Joy to Be Young”: From Peru to Paris via Yale and Other Academies
1. Cole Porter at Yale / Robert Kimball
2. When the Little Bluebird Starts to Sing: Porter’s Musical Formation / Susan Forscher Weiss
3. Cole Porter, European / Wilfried Van den Brande
4. Landed: Cole Porter’s Ballet / Simon Morrison
PART 2. Porter the Poet and Performer
5. Lists of Louche Living: Music in Cole Porter’s Social World / Mitchell Morris
6. Which Comes First, the Music or the Lyrics? “You’re the Top” / Rob Kapilow
7. “I Hate Parading My Serenading”: The Historical Record of Porter as a Performer / Eric Davis
8. From “Young Bears” to “Three-Letter Words”: “Anything Goes,” 1934–1962 / James Hepokoski
9. Keeping Faith with John Q. Public: Cole Porter, Billy Rose, and Seven Lively Arts / James O’Leary
10. “The Beat Beat Beat of the Tom-Tom”: Cole Porter and the Exotic / Joshua S. Walden
PART 3. Approaches to the Analysis and Criticism of Porter’s Works
11. Licentious Harmony and Counterpoint in Porter’s “Love for Sale” / Michael Buchler
12. About Cole Porter’s Songs / Don M. Randel
13. You Never Know Anatomy of a Flop / Cliff Eisen
14. A Consideration of Drama, Lyrics, and Musical Structure in a Porter Film Broadway Melody of 1940 / Matthew Shaftel
15. Kiss Me, Kate / Lynn Laitman Siebert
PART 4. Materials for the Study of Cole Porter’s Music
16. Cole Porter’s Papers / Mark Eden Horowitz
17. Secondary Materials and the Study of Cole Porter / Gregory J. Decker
Selected Bibliography / Gregory J. Decker
About the Contributors
Index