The Fall 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Music, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Lewis H. Lapham, Christopher Carroll, John Corbett, Alex Cuadros, Alison Kinney, and Xiaofei Tian; Voices in Time contributions by Jonathan Biss, Frederick Douglass, Louise Erdrich, Margaret Fuller, Masha Gessen, Vasily Grossman, Naguib Mahfouz, Carson McCullers, Gita Mehta, Jelly Roll Morton, George Steiner, and others; and art by Hiroshige and Rembrandt van Rijn, and others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Cover | “The Francesca” violin, Antonio Stradivari, 1694
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Sound Systems
Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, ’Round Midnight
VOICES IN TIME
Theme
2010: New York City | Alex Ross
1778: Williamsburg, VA | Thomas Jefferson
1507: Urbino | Baldassare Castiglione
1815: Bath | Jane Austen
1917: Cairo | Naguib Mahfouz
1568: Venice | Maddalena Casulana
1971: Los Angeles | Grover Lewis
c. 520: Rome | Boethius
1670: Paris | Molière
1975: Berkeley | Greil Marcus
c. 347 BC: Crete | Plato
1993: Karlsruhe | Peter Sloterdijk
c. 1455: Tenochtitlán | Diego Durán
1903: Atlanta | W.E.B. Du Bois
c. 1270: Castile | Aegidius of Zamora
1930: Colombia | Gabriel García Márquez
c. 148 BC: Rome | Cicero
1953: New York City | Alejo Carpentier
c. 800: Chang’an | Han Yu
c. 1170: France | Raimbaut d’Aurenga & Giraut de Bornelh
1938: Washington, DC | Jelly Roll Morton
1957: Chicago | John Cage
1178: St. Rupertsberg | Hildegard of Bingen
1981: Los Angeles | Nathaniel Mackey
1718: Constantinople | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1997: Cambridge | George Steiner
Variation
2011: Moscow | Masha Gessen
c. 100: Rome | Plutarch
1774: Edo | Hiraga Gennai
1730: Leipzig | Johann Sebastian Bach
1955: Salzburg | Thomas Bernhard
c. 1880: Florence, AL | W.C. Handy
1936: Cincinnati | Carson McCullers
c. 600 BC: Lesbos | Sappho
c. 100: Athens | Lucian
1993: India | Gita Mehta
1818: Dresden | Arthur Schopenhauer
1324: Avignon | Pope John XXII
1720: Venice | Benedetto Marcello
1964: Bethlehem, PA | Irwin Silber
1598: Messina | William Shakespeare
c. 770: Francia | Notker the Stammerer
1947: United States | Charles Mingus
1993: Chicago | Steve Albini
c. 438: Persia | Ferdowsi
1841: Boston | Margaret Fuller
1942: Auschwitz | Vasily Grossman
1967: London | Ted Hughes
1976: New York City | Richard Owen
1878: Basel | Friedrich Nietzsche
1910: Fargo | Louise Erdrich
Improvisation
2017: Germany | Reddit
1913: Milan | Luigi Russolo
c. 239 BC: Qin | Lü Buwei
1901: Paris | Claude Debussy
c. 1850: Kolotovka | Ivan Turgenev
1978: Brooklyn | Jay-Z
c. 1715: London | John Mainwaring
1995: London | Nicholas Spice
c. 300: India | Visnu Sarma
1992: San Francisco | Don Asher
1839: Paris | Clara Schumann
c. 1975: Kingston | Geoffrey Philp
c. 1300: Egypt | Ibn al-Ukhuwwa
1894: London | George Bernard Shaw
c. 1997: New York City | William Gaddis
c. 1470: Plessis | Pascal Quignard
1941: Vermont | Agatha Fassett
1711: London | Joseph Addison
c. 250 BC: Tyrrhenian Sea | Apollonius of Rhodes
1938: Los Angeles | Dorothy Baker
c. 1920: Paris | Erik Satie
c. 1825: Maryland | Frederick Douglass
1901: Vienna | Alma Mahler-Werfel
c. 1935: Pretoria | Es’kia Mphahlele
c. 300: Greece | Aristides Quintilianus
2017: New York City | Jonathan Biss
1949: Dublin | Ludwig Wittgenstein
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
Songs from Sinjar | Alex Cuadros
How Deep Is Your Love? | Alison Kinney
Sun Ra in Sin City | John Corbett
The Emperor’s New Music | Xiaofei Tian
Secret Music | Christopher Carroll
Departments
Conversations | Ouyang, Hendrix, Björk
Miscellany | Fig Risk, Radio Hope, Songs of Annoyance
Glossary | All Kill, Hyphy, Tarab
Sources | Readings & Art