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John Cage
Marjorie Perloff
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Description for John Cage
Paperback. When the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Junkerman, Charles. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
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, Cage created compositions that undercut some of these artists' central principles and then attributed his own compositional theories to their "tradition." Following the text of Cage's "Overpopulation and Art," delivered at Stanford shortly before his death, ten critics respond to the complexity and contradiction exhibited in ... Read more
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, Cage created compositions that undercut some of these artists' central principles and then attributed his own compositional theories to their "tradition." Following the text of Cage's "Overpopulation and Art," delivered at Stanford shortly before his death, ten critics respond to the complexity and contradiction exhibited in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226660578
SKU
V9780226660578
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