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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808672403321

Autore

Kostelanetz Richard

Titolo

Conversing with Cage / / Richard Kostelanetz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

0-7119-1846-5

1-135-94970-0

1-135-94971-9

0-415-93791-4

1-280-06219-3

0-203-42703-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Composers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Autobiography; Precursors; His Own Music (to 1970); His Own Music (after 1970); His Performances; His Writings; Radio and Audiotape; Visual Arts; Dance; Successors; Esthetics; Pedagogy; Social Philosophy; Coda; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Some of the Interviewers; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Conversing with Cage draws on over 150 interviews with John Cage conducted over four decades to draw a full picture of his life and art.  Filled with the witty aphorisms that have made Cage as famous as an esthetic philosopher as a composer, the book offers both an introduction to Cage's way of thinking and a rich gathering of his many thoughts on art, life, and music. John Cage is perhaps this century's most radical classical composer. From his famous ""silent"" piece (4'33"") to his proclamation that ""all sound is music,"" Cage stretched the aesthetic boundaries of what could be performed i