SUMARIO. Welcome to the hellmouth : Buffy’s music arc ; Jacqueline Bach / Theorizing television music as serial art : Buffy the vampire slayer and the narratology of the thematic score ; Christopher Wiley / Spike ensouled : the sonic transformations of a champion ; Elizabeth A. Clendinning / More than just a rock’n’roll reversal : tracking gender on Buffy the vampire slayer ; Amanda Howell / A sweet vamp : critiquing the treatment of race in Buffy and the American musical once more (with feeling) ; Jeffrey Middents / Concealing truths : rhetorical questions in Once more, with feeling ; Cynthea Masson / Singing their hearts out : the problem of performance in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel ; Janet K. Halfyard / Angel’s narrative score ; Matthew Mills / Still flyin’? : conventions, reversals, and musical meaning in Firefly ; Stanley C. Pelkey II / My rifle’s as bright as my sweetheart’s eyes : Joss Whedon’s Firefly and the songs of the Clancy Brothers ; Linda Jencson / The meaning of world music in Firefly ; Eric Hung / The status is not quo : gender and performance in Dr. Horrible’s sing-along blog ; Kendra Preston Leonard.