Spring 1991

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Memphis to Memphis
Albert Goldman

Always Bach
Paul West

In Nomine
David Rattray

Two Appreciations: Jackie Mc and David Murray
Amiri Baraka

Against Music
Robert Kelly

The Furies
Hilton Als

Up Close and Personal: Miles Davis and Me
Quincy Troupe

Orwell’s Bells
Mitch Berman and Susanne Wah Lee

From Comes Through in the Call Hold (Improvisations on Cecil Taylor)
Clark Coolidge

An Interview
David Starobin and Bradford Morrow

Music in Time of War
Leon Botstein

For Four Violins
Marjorie Welish

Me and Satan
Walter Mosley

Area J
Kenward Elmslie

From Djbot Baghostus’s Run
Nathaniel Mackey

On the Uneasy Marriage of Music and Poetry
Lukas Foss

Ami Minden
Anne Tardos

A Conversation
Philip Corner and Armand Schwerner

Three Notes on the Roots of Rhythm
Gerald Early

Storiella Americana as She is Swyung: Duke Ellington, the Culture of Washington D.C. and the Blues as Representative Anecdote
Albert Murray

Lucas 1 to 29
Jackson Mac Low

Tuning Forks
James Nares

The Influence of Music on the Work of George Eliot as recalled by George Henry Lewes
Barbara Guest

Aria No. 17
John Taggart

Two Essays: Why Do We Hate the Music of Our Time? and In Praise of Charles Koechlin
John Ash

George Wettling
Hank O&rsquo and Neal

Size
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

The Spun-Off Independent Dead-End Ten-Star Blast
Hayden Carruth

Drum of Poetry, Drum of War
Willard Gingerich

Echoes
Stephen Ratcliffe

Theme
Carl Rakosi

War Wounds
David Shields

A Snowman and Other Curiosities
Gilbert Sorrentino

Mambo Mephiste, an unfinished novel
Seth Morgan