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← Back to all issuesGranta 76: Music
Winter 2001
This special issue of Granta is devoted to the making and meaning of music from plainsong to rap – and includes colour photography for the first time in the magazine’s history.
From this Issue
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Resistance
Richard Sennett
‘For musicians, the sense of touch defines our physical experience of art’
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Frank’s Place
Richard Williams
‘Marilyn Monroe spent a couple of nights at the Cal-Neva. Sinatra knew she was in a bad way.’
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Baht ’At
Blake Morrison
‘I'd already begun to suspect that sex brought misery or death, and now I knew.’
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The Silence
Julian Barnes
‘Naturally the artist is misunderstood. That is normal, and after a while becomes familiar.’
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Translating Caetano
John Ryle
‘The beat of the city was shot through with drumming patterns used to invoke them in the Saturday night ceremonies.’
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La Mer
Nicholson Baker
‘I heard Debussy's side-slipping water-slopes, with cold spray blown off their crests’
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Clara
Janice Galloway
‘She shifts, half in shadow. Whatever else, she's certainly a child. No one is with her.’
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The First Sense
Robyn Davidson
‘Hearing, they say, is the first of the senses we develop in the womb.’
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Mozart, Not
Alan Rusbridger
‘It has been said that playing a Fazioli is like driving a Ferrari after driving an Austin Maestro.’
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White Lies
Amit Chaudhuri
‘The guru looked discomfited, as if he’d been caught doing something inappropriate. At the same time, he looked somewhat triumphant.’
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American Folk
Greil Marcus
‘Smith placed murder ballads, explosions of religious ecstasy, moral warnings and hedonistic revels on the same plane of value and meaning’
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Actus Tragicus
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
‘Bach devises an ingenious symmetrical structure to underpin in music the theological division between Law and Gospel. ’
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Tantum Ergo
Craig Brown
‘If you were twenty in the summer of 1967, San Francisco was the only place to be.’
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Cecilia
Andrew O’Hagan
‘Now that everyone lives as if in a movie, we begin to forget that once it was only special people who did.’
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Medtner
Philip Pullman
‘It feels like being a child in a room where adults are having a deep and passionate conversation about important things’
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I’m Like a Bird
Nick Hornby
‘Maybe disposability is a sign of pop music's maturity, a recognition of its own limitations, rather than the converse.’
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Unfinished Sympathy
Julie Burchill
‘Pop songs have the power to make me behave badly, and for the first time in my life I want to do the right thing’
