This volume looks at the creative work of the great avant-gardist John Cage from an exciting interdisciplinary perspective, exploring his activities as a composer, performer, thinker, and artist.The essays in this collection grew out of a pivotal gathering during which a spectrum of participants including composers, music scholars, and visual artists, literary critics, poets, and filmmakers convened to examine Cage's extraordinary artistic legacy. Beginning with David Bernstein's introductory essay on the reception of Cage's music, the volume addresses topics ranging from Cage's reluctance to discuss his homosexuality, to his work as a performer and musician, and his forward-looking, provocative experimentation with electronic and other media. Several of the essays draw upon previously unseen sketches and other source materials. Also included are transcripts of lively panel discussions among some of Cage's former colleagues. Taken together, this collection is a much-needed contribution to the study of one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century.

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Year

2010

ISBN

9780226044873

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Music

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / David W. Bernstein
1. “In Order to Thicken the Plot”: Toward a Critical Reception of Cage’s Music / David W. Bernstein
2. John Cage’s Queer Silence; or, How to Avoid Making Matters Worse / Jonathan D. Katz
3. The Intent of the Musical Moment: Cage and the Transpersonal / Austin Clarkson
4. Cage as Performer / Gordon Mumma
5. As Time Passes / Deborah Campana
6. David Tudor and the Solo for Piano / John Holzaepfel
7. Here Comes Everything / Paul van Emmerik
8. Cage’s Influence: A Panel Discussion / Gordon Mumma (chair), Allan Kaprow, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, Alvin Curran, and Maryanne Amacher
9. Cage and the Computer: A Panel Discussion / James Pritchett (chair), James Tenney, Andrew Culver, and Frances White
10. Cage’s Writings up to the Late 1980s / Jackson Mac Low
11. Cage and the Structure of Chance / Constance Lewallen
12. Diary: Cage’s Mountain Lake Workshop, April 8–15, 1990 / Ray Kass
13. The Making of Cage’s One^11 / Henning Lohner
List of Contributors
Index