344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface, ONE: Autobiography, TWO: Precursors, THREE: His Own Music (to 1970), FOUR: His Own Music (after 1970), FIVE: His Performances, SIX: His Writings, SEVEN: Radio and Audiotape, EIGHT: Visual Arts, NINE: Dance, TEN: Successors, ELEVEN: Esthetics, TWELVE: Pedagogy, THIRTEEN: Social Philosophy, Coda, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Some of the Interviewers, Index
Biography
Richard Kostelanetz has authored over 40 books of criticism of contemporary music and the arts. He is noted as one of the first critics to recognize the importance of John Cage, and has written and collected several books on Cage and his work. He is a long-time resident of SoHo in New York City.
