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 ...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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 ...

Uniting fifty never-before-seen watercolor images, this book explores the powerful influence of Zen on the renowned artist and composer's work.

The second edition of a classic text on the history of electronic music, this book has been thoroughly updated to present material on home computers and the Internet, as well ...

An aesthetic subversive who signed his name on a bottle-drying rack and called it "readymade" art. A composer who cast the rules of music to the winds in order to "let sounds ...

Annotation The interrelated essays in this book explore the coming together of ethics and poetics in literatures that engage with their contemporary moments to become wagers on ...

"When John Cage opened his compositions to chance sounds in the 1950s, and Andy Warhol began exhibiting paintings of Brillo boxes in the 1960s, the art of the commonplace ...