John Cage (ex)plain(ed)Writer/composer/performer/painter/poet are just a few hats that the musician John Cage (1912-1992) wore through his long and productive life. For over five decades, he changed the shape of American art and culture by pushing the envelope of what could be called "art". Quietly, working at the edges of acceptability, often ridiculed and rarely performed at first, Cage grew to be the most influential of all American artists, influencing not only composers and fellow musicians like Philip Glass, but also performance artists such as Laurie Anderson and Yoko Ono and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. This book presents Cage's life and works in all media, explaining the workings of one of our greatest creators. -- Describes Cage's major works in all media, including musical works, theatrical pieces, radio works, visual arts, and poetry and prose -- Draws extensively on interviews with Cage conducted by the author and not previously published |
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In the first notebooks of Empty Words, each part is called a lecture. It was
something to be read aloud, and therefore I made it a length that some people
would consider excessive; I made a length of two hours and a half for each
lecture.
In the first notebooks of Empty Words, each part is called a lecture. It was
something to be read aloud, and therefore I made it a length that some people
would consider excessive; I made a length of two hours and a half for each
lecture.
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lecture there that went on for hours and hours, and we had been warned that it
was going to be tiresome. I was with Merce Cunningham and the Dance
Company. It was very cold, and we were not protected by any warmth. They had
told us it ...
lecture there that went on for hours and hours, and we had been warned that it
was going to be tiresome. I was with Merce Cunningham and the Dance
Company. It was very cold, and we were not protected by any warmth. They had
told us it ...
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The approach to music is made by steadily eliminating one of the aspects of
language, so that as we start Lecture One of Empty Words, we have no
sentences. Though they did exist in Mureau, now they're gone. In the second one
, the phrases ...
The approach to music is made by steadily eliminating one of the aspects of
language, so that as we start Lecture One of Empty Words, we have no
sentences. Though they did exist in Mureau, now they're gone. In the second one
, the phrases ...
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KJohn Cage Inventor | 3 |
Fomenter of Radical Consciousness | 9 |
TU Works | 49 |
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