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JOHN CAGE

PETERS

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. Cage's activities as composer, graphic artist, poet, teacher, critic andnot leastwriter are explored in this collection of readings by and about this avant-garde pioneer, covering his most innovative period, 19331970. The main concern of John Cage: An Anthology is, of course, music: here composers and critics such as Virgil Thompson, Henry Cowell, Edward Downes, and Michael Zwerin analyze Cage's contribution to sound; Cage comments on his own works, such as Sonatas and Interludes, Cartridge Music , and Williams Mix ; and the editor, Richard Kostelanetz, also includes Cage's groundbreaking essay, ”Future of Music: Credo” and his perceptive remarks about composers from Satie and Webern to Stockhausen, But this anthology by no means neglects the other aspects of Cage's creativity. Cage writes fondly here of his collaboration with Merce Cunningham, the space-time avant-garde dancer and choreographer; Barbara Rose and Dore Ashton review Cage's influence on the contemporary art scene; his poetry is both represented herein and analyzed by Kostelanetz; and his teaching is remembered vividly by his students. Including a newly updated bibliography, discography, and catalog of compositions, as well as more than sixty illustrations, this collection is invaluable not only for students, teachers, and scholars, but for all who take a lively interest in the growth of the avant-garde in the twentieth century.

John Cage: An Anthology

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

Book by Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Philip Glass, Claes Oldenburg, Jack Kerouac

Text--Sound Texts

Literature & Fiction

Allen GINSBERG

Philip Glass

Claes Oldenburg

jack-kerouac

Poetry

William Morrow and Company, Inc.

John Cage, a leading figure of the American musical avant-garde and lecturer and writer extraordinary, dedicated himself to the search for new horizons in musical composition. Silence is a collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made John Cage's name synonymous with all that is unpredictable and exciting in contemporary miusic. Outrageous they may be, but to anyone who is receptive to new ideas, to fresh and original ways of looking at and listening to things, they are a mine of fascinating discovery. And, as Cage fans will expect, the book also contains a wealth of handy information on collecting mushrooms, fishing through ice, and so on, as well as many anecdotes and Zen-type stories which illustrate Cage's exuberant artistic pre-occupations.

Silence: Lectures and Writings

Calder & Boyars

This volume completes the corpus of the collected writings of the ebullient sage of modern American music, John Cage.

A Year from Monday

Arts & Photography

Music

marion Boyars. London

John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." -The American Record Guide "There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away."

SILENCE:

Wesleyan University Press

Writings Through Finnegans Wake & Writings for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake

Printed Editions

The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts

Routledge

Rolling Stone magazine October 6, 1977 Issue #249 Andy Warhol Bella Abzug cover

Milton Glaser

Bella Abzug

Andy Warhol cover painting

Exact Change Yearbook 1995

MICHAEL PALMER

Hugo Ball

gertrde stein

Brathwaite Creeley Spicer

Carcanet Press Ltd.

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