The Cambridge Companion to John Cage

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David Nicholls
Cambridge University Press, 2002 - 287
John Cage (1912-1992) was without doubt one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century music. Pupil of Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Marcel Duchamp, and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, among others, he spent much of his career in pursuit of an unusual goal: 'giving up control so that sounds can be sounds', as he put it. This book celebrates the richness and diversity of Cage's achievements - the development of the prepared piano and of the percussion orchestra, the adoption of chance and of indeterminacy, the employment of electronic resources and of graphic notation, and the questioning of the most fundamental tenets of Western art music. Besides composing around 300 works, he was also a prolific performer, writer, poet, and visual artist. Written by a team of experts, this Companion discusses Cage's background, his work, and its performance and reception, providing in sum a fully rounded portrait of a fascinating figure.
 

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Cage and America
3
Cage and Europe
20
Cage and Asia history and sources
41
Sounds words images
61
Music I to the late 1940s
63
Words and writings
85
Towards infinity Cage in the 1950s and 1960s
100
Visual art
109
Cages collaborations
151
Cage and Tudor
169
Cage and high modernism
186
Music and society
214
Cage and postmodernism
227
No escape from heaven John Cage as father figure
242
Endnotes
261
Bibliography
268

Music II from the late 1960s
128
Interaction and influence
149
Index
277

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David Nicholls is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. Author of American Experimental Music, 1890-1940 (Cambridge, 1990) and editor of The Cambridge History of American Music (Cambridge, 1998) and numerous articles on topics in American music, he has also acted as contributing editor for the reissue of Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources (CUP, 1996) and The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium (1997). He is also editor of the journal American Music.

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