The Music Issue
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Essays, music and interviews about everyone from Miles to Beethoven, Bach to Ellington, from midieval plain chant to avant-garde operetta.

Albert Murray, Storiella Americana as she
     is Swyung: Duke Ellington, the Culture
     of Washington D.C. and the Blues as
      the Representative Anecdote
Albert Goldman, Memphis to Memphis
Paul West, Always Bach
David Rattray, In Nomine
Amiri Baraka, Two Appreciations: Jackie
     Mc and David Murray
Robert Kelly, Against Music
Hilton Als, The Furies
Quincy Troupe, Up Close and Personal:
     Miles Davis and Me
Mitch Berman and Susanne Wah Lee,
      Orwell's Bells
Hayden Carruth, The Spun-Off Independent
     Dead-End Ten-Star Blast
Clark Coolidge, From Comes Through in
      the Call Hold (Improvisations on Cecil
     Taylor)
John Abercrombie and David Starobin, An
     Interview with Bradford Morrow
Leon Botstein, Music in Time of War
Marjorie Welish, For Four Violins
Walter Mosley, Me and Satan
Kenward Elmslie, Area J
Nathaniel Mackey, From Djbot Baghostus's
     Run
Lukas Foss, On the Uneasy Marriage of
     Music and Poetry
Anne Tardos, Ami Mindin
Philip Corner and Armand Schwerner, A
     Conversation
Gerald Early, Three Notes on the Roots of
      Rhythm
Jackson Mac Low, Lucas 1 to 29
James Nares, Tuning Forks
Barbara Guest, The Influence of Music on
     the Work of George Eliot as recalled by
     George Henry Lewes
John Taggart, Aria No.17
John Ash, Two Essays: Why Do We Hate
     the Music of Our Time? and In Praise of
     Charles Koechlin
Hank O'Neal, George Wettling
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Size
Willard Gingerich, Drum of Poetry, Drum of
     War
Stephen Ratcliffe, Echoes
Carl Rakosi, Theme

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THREE PROSE PIECES

David Shields, War Wounds
Gilbert Sorrentino, A Snowman and the
     Other Curiosities
Seth Morgan, Mambo Mephiste, an
     unfinished novel