| All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ~Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Rhapsody in Blue: An Urban Journal Insights into City Life |
In music, a rhapsody means a composition of a collection of ideas and motifs, irregular in its form but epic in its essence. Geroge Gershwin wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924. Gershwin assembled the rumbling of a train and the blues of a street performer to create a sonic masterpiece of what he described as America's 'metropolitan madness.' "Rhapsody in Blue" is also a biannual student journal about cities. It was started by two senior Urban Studies students at Columbia University in 2003. The journal was inactive during the academic year 2005-2006 but is now entering its sixth year of publication! Taking its cue from Gershwin, the journal "Rhapsody in Blue" combines the disciplines of art, photography, poetry and prose, to explore what makes a city breathe, what makes it move, struggle, thrive, hurt, and grow. |
Call for Submissions |
Interested in submitting? Submissions range in style from poetry to journal articles and in content from the Manhattanville Expansion to bicycling and rowing around New York City. Contact our editors. |
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