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Empty Words: Writings '73-'78 By John Cage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cage, John
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 1981.
- Summary:
- Cage voices his concerns on the nature and future of music, they ways of dancers, the West's interpretation of Eastern ideas in this thought provoking collection of anecdotes and epigrams.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface to "Lecture on the weather"
- How the piano came to be prepared
- Empty words
- Where are we eating? and What are we eating?
- Series re Morris Graves
- Sixty-one mesostics re and not re Norman O. Brown
- Writing for the second time through Finnegans Wake
- The future of music
- Mesostics. Many happy returns ; A long letter : Song ; For S. Fort, dancer ; For William McN. who studied with Ezra Pound ; Wright's Oberlin House restored by E. Johnson ; "I'm the happiest person I know." (S.W.).
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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