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This special issue of <i>South Atlantic Quarterly</i> focuses on music--be it a film score, incidental music for a play, or music for pantomime or dance--as a nonautonomous phenomenon. The result is a broad-based discussion where the cultural, the social, and the political are not considered peripheral contexts that shape music but rather are framed as integral components of the works at hand. <p><i>Contributors</i>. Annegret Fauser, Bryan Gilliam, Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon, Kim H. Kowalke, Neil Lerner, Tamara Levitz, Elizabeth Paley</p>