Musicage: Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music Paperback - 1996
by John Cage; Joan Retallack
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Joan Retallack's conversations with Cage represent the first consideration of his artistic production in its entirety, across genres. Informed by the perspective of age, Cage's comments range freely from his theories of chance and indeterminate composition to his long-time collaboration with Merce Cunningham to the aesthetics of his multi-media works. A composer for whom the whole world - with its brimming silences and anarchic harmonies - was a source of music, Cage once claimed, "There is no noise, only sounds". As these interviews attest, that penchant for testing traditions reached far beyond his music. His lifelong project, Retallack writes in her comprehensive introduction, was "dislodging cultural authoritarianism and gridlock by inviting surprising conjunctions within carefully delimited frameworks and processes". Consummate performer to the end, Cage delivers here just such a conjunction - a tour de force that provides new insights into the man and a clearer view of the status of art in the twentieth century.
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- Title Musicage: Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music
- Author John Cage; Joan Retallack
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780819563118 / 0819563110
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.04 x 1.14 in (22.91 x 15.34 x 2.90 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95009497
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.92
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