Conversing with Cage / Richard Kostelanetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kostelanetz, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cage, John--Interviews.

Cage, John.

Composers--United States--Interviews.

Composers.

Physical Description:

x, 332 p. ; 23 cm.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography.

ISBN:

0415937922 (pbk.) :

9780415937924 (pbk.) :

9780415937917 :

9780711918467

0711918465

9781135949709

1135949700

9781135949716

1135949719

9780415937917

0415937914

9781280062193

1280062193

9780203427033

0203427033

OCLC:

437084479