This book presents a complete and coherent account of composer John Cage, almost universally recognized as the leading figure of the postwar musical avant-garde. Through the description and interpretation of Cage's most important compositions, James Pritchett presents a historical discussion of the composer's changing musical concerns, his various ...
This work seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the "pre-chance" period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work.
Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The ...
John Cage (1912-92), that most controversial of contemporary composers, is paid tribute in this hefty volume. Part One traces the roots of Cage's influences; Part Two focuses on Cage's own writings and visual art as well as his music; and Part Three takes a balanced look at his legacy.
This collection of interviews with John Cage reveals the avant-garde composer's feelings about music, art, and education. The author, Richard Kostelanetz, is an authoritative experimental music critic who has been tracing Cage's career for several decades.
This volume looks at the creative work of the great avant-gardist John Cage from an exciting interdisciplinary perspective, exploring his activities as a composer, performer, thinker and artist. The essays in this collection grew out of a pivotal gathering during which a spectrum of participants including composers, music scholars and visual ...
No composer was more controversial, prolific, or more misunderstood than John Cage (1912-1992). No critic has spent more years defending Cage and his work than Richard Kostelanetz. This work summarizes a lifetime's study of Cage's music, literary works, art, and philosophy. It both introduces Cage to the neophyte and offers valuable insights for ...
When the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory and performance practice. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. A disciple of Duchamp and Schoenberg, Satie and Joyce, ...
Between May 1949 and August 1954 the composers Pierre Boulez and John Cage exchanged a series of remarkable letters which reflect on their own music and the music and culture of the time. This correspondence, together with a further letter from 1962 and various other relevant documents, have been edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and appear here for ...
This ebullient collection of questions and answers covers a wide variety of topic. Cage's great wit and intelligence are allowed to range across such subjects as his own music and texts, mushrooms, chess, James Joyce, Mao, Thoreau, Satie, electronic music, the prepared piano, Zen, the environment, technology, politics and economics.
Sounds of the Inner Eye explores the artistic and biographical connection among three of the Pacific Northwest's most significant and highly respected artists. Mark Tobey, often aligned with the abstract expressionists, was a pioneer in integrating elements of Asian art into mystical, calligraphic paintings. Morris Graves, known as something of an ...
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 ...
This collection of interviews with John Cage reveals the avant-garde composer's feelings about music, art, and education. The author, Richard Kostelanetz, is an authoritative experimental music critic who has been tracing Cage's career for several decades.
For years he was dismissed as an eccentric exponent of arbitrary noise punctuated by silence. Now, however, John Cage is universally acknowledged as the most influential composer of his generation. Cages activities as composer, graphic artist, poet, teacher, critic andnot leastwriter are explored in this collection of readings by and about this ...
This tribute to American composer John Cage includes personal interviews, rare photographs, and analyses of Cage's music and writings. The centerpiece is Cage's recently completed text Anarchy, published here for the first time in its entirety.
John Cage was one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992. But he was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. As an interview subject he was a consummate professional. The main source of "CageTalk: Dialogues with and ...
When the great avant-gardist John Cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. But Cage never thought of himself as only (or even primarily) a composer; he was a poet, a visual artist, a ...
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