About this title: Joan Retallack's conversations with Cage represent the first consideration of his artistic production in its entirety, across genres. Informed by the perspective of age, Cage's comments range freely from his theories of chance and indeterminate composition to his long-time collaboration with Merce Cunningham to the aesthetics of his multi-media works. A composer for whom the whole world - with its brimming silences and anarchic harmonies - was a source of music, Cage once claimed, "There is no noise, only sounds". As these interviews attest, that penchant for testing traditions reached far ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of New England, Hanover, NH
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780819552853ISBN:0819552852
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Isbn#0819552852. With several black and white illustrations. In depth conversations with Cage relating his theories on chance, composing, music, art and writing. NEAR FINE jacket on a FINE book. Light edgewear to the jacket. Book with no visible wear. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. read more
Description: Good. 0819552852 Ex-library, with normal stickers, stamps and markings--in very good condition, overall--tight binding, clean pages. read more
Binding: cloth boards with dust jacket
Publisher: University Press of New England, Middletown, CT
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780819552853ISBN:0819552852
Description: Very Fine. 23.5 x 16 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; A monograph of composer John Cage consisting of a conversational interview with Joan Retallack. ISBN: 0819552852. 360 pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan UP
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780819552853ISBN:0819552852
Description: (very good unless otherwise noted) Wesleyan UP, 1996, 1st edition, 360p., hardcover, front endpaper scuffed, dust jacket; John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack, editor. read more
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