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Title: John Cage: Composed in America by Marjorie Perloff, Charles Junkerman ISBN: 0-226-66057-5 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Summary: vigorous essays on a Zen interdisciplinarian
Comment: These are a collection of marvelous essays Marjorie Perloff has edited. The scope of Cage is seemingly immense, the implications of his work has touched varigated corners and crevices,abandoned places: the music world, the world of poetry,conceptual art, performance art, mushroom enthusiasts,opera, and other synergistic art forms we have no label for yet. Perloff herself chooses the influence of Duchamp to discuss, the ends of things of the Western canon was a frightening yet fascinating point in the last century. And Cage always had done everything,like Duchamp with an element of the lighthearted at work. There are analysis here as well as seasoned music essayist Jann Pasler's discussion on Cage's "Composition in Retrospect" a 1981 mesostic text. Pasler helps explain what this figuritivly complex yet disarmingly word play composition means. Cage wrote many of his most important works in this structural form. And his own "Overpopulation and Art" is included here, asa a guiding means of response to these participants. This is as close as Cage gets to social and political/environmental reflection, you will not recognize Cage here. Herbert Lindenberger is a well known writer in the cloistered world of Opera and he admirably reflects on Cage's one and only Opera "Europeras" and the Aesthics that may emit itself from that varigated and multidimensional work. Although aesthtics in its traditionally bound demeanor was always and remained a by-product of the Cage edifice, here in this opera he lets other impart their aesthtic desires by allowing singers to choose their own arias to perform. Also Cage scholar Joan Retallack(who has also an impressive series of interviews with Cage) speaks here on "Poetics of a Complex Realism", and this refers to the American dimension of Cage, a topic seldom discussed. This refers to the Trancendentalists tradition of social rebellion although quite passive in retrospect. Writers like Thoreau were important to Cage. Cage activism points in mysterious and undramatic ways. The making of meaning through performance and collaboration was what Cage had valued and he contributed that legacy to the last century. Artifacts of art need continuous nurturing,scholarly explication, regular performance and tried and tested aesthetic canons to be attenuated. Rather within this insecure world, Cage's hope was to nurture a tradition of performers,of communicators equipped with a conceptual fredom of expressive means through a varied and interdisciplinary world which didn't seem to depend on any one particular discipline or technique, as the rigours of composition or, playing the violin, or writing symmetrical verse.
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Title: Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music by John Cage, Joan Retallack ISBN: 0819563110 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Music of John Cage by James Pritchett ISBN: 0521565448 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 14 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage ISBN: 0819560286 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 June, 1961 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to John Cage by David Nicholls ISBN: 0521789680 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond by Michael Nyman ISBN: 0521653835 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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