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Contents
- Introduction: Music for the Dead and the Living Helen Dell
- Part One: Going home
- Chapter 1: Into the Profound Deep: Pulled by a Song Samuel Curkpatrick
- Chapter 2: 'Farewell Vain World, I'm Going Home': Negotiating Death in the Sacred Harp Tradition Frances Miller
- Chapter 3: Crossing Over, Returning Home: Expressions of Death as a Place in George Crumb's River of Life Abigail Shupe
- Part Two: 'Lest we forget': music, history and myth
- Chapter 4: Public Mourning, The Nation, and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings Kip Pegley
- Chapter 5: Swinging in Heaven, Boppin' in Hell: Jazz and Death Walter van de Leur
- Chapter 6: 'Sad and Solemn Requiems': Disaster Songs and Complicated Grief in the Aftermath of Nova Scotia Mining Disasters Heather Sparling
- Part Three: Approaching by turning away: metaphorical death
- Chapter 7: Moving between worlds: Death, the otherworld and traditional Irish song Mary McLaughlin
- Chapter 8: Dying for Love in trouvere song Helen Dell
- Part Four: The restless dead
- Chapter 9: To the Tune of "Queen Dido": The Spectropoetics of Early Modern English Balladry Lindsay Ann Reid
- Chapter 10: 'Break on through to the other side': Songs of Death in Supernatural Horror Films Penny Spirou and Natalie Lewandowski
- Chapter 11: 'And the Stars Spell out Your Name': The Funeral Music of Diana, Princess of Wales Helen M. Hickey
- Chapter 12: Barthes's Orphic Quest: music and mourning in Camera Lucida Henriette Korthals Altes