John Cage, writer : previously uncollected pieces / selected and introduced by Richard Kostelanetz.

Author/creator Cage, John
Other author Kostelanetz, Richard.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Limelight Editions, 1993.
Descriptionxviii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Uniform titleLiterary works. Selections
Contents Notes on Compositions I, 1933-48 -- Listening to Music (c. 1937) -- The East in the West (1948) -- A Composer's Confessions (1948) -- Contemporary Music Festivals Are Held in Italy (1949) -- Notes on Compositions II, 1950-63 -- A Few Ideas About Music and Film (1951) -- Notes on Cunningham Choreography (1954-62) -- Remarks Before a David Tudor Recital (1959) -- Preface to Indeterminacy (1959) -- Program Notes (1959) -- Three Asides on the Dance (c. 1959) -- Remarks on Theatre Song and Ikon (1961) -- A Movement, A Sound, A Change of Light (1964) -- Notes on Compositions III, 1967-78 -- On Nam June Paik's Zen for Film (1962-64) (1968) -- Art and Technology (1969) -- Preface to Notations (1969) -- Political/Social Ends? (1969) -- Foreword to Richard Bunger's The Well-Prepared Piano (1973) -- Prefatory Notes to Henry Cowell's Quartet Romantic and Quartet Euphometric (1974) -- From Contemporary Music Catalogue (C.E Peters) (1975) -- 7 Out of 23 (1977) -- If There Isn't Any, Why Do You Wear Them? (1977) -- Notes on Compositions IV, 1279-86 -- Mushrooms (1979) -- Music and Particularly Silence in the Work of Jackson MacLow (1980) -- More on Paik (1982) -- For Don Gillespie (1983) -- Music and Art (1985) -- Writing Through "Howl" (1986) -- Tokyo Lecture and Three Mesostics (1986) -- Notes on Compositions V, 1987-92 -- Storia dell'Opera (1987) -- Synopses (1988) -- Time (One Autoku) (1988) -- Marshall McLuhan (1989) -- Sports (1989) -- An Autobiographical Statement (1989) -- Europeras 3 & 4 (1990) -- Mirakus: Mirage Verbal (1990) -- Letter to Zurich (1991) -- Macrobiotic Cooking (1991) -- Music Without Horizon Soundscape That Never Stops (1991).
Abstract In August 1992, John Cage died suddenly, just a month before he would have celebrated his eightieth birthday. The passing of one of the greatest avant garde figures of the century was mourned around the world and brought a new recognition of his achievements, in music and art, and a reconsideration of the Cage legacy that will long continue. An essential part of this legacy are the writings gathered here, which span more than fifty years of Cagean thought and creativity. Generally unfamiliar, they demonstrate that Cage was highly skilled in using language not only to provide insight into his own work but also to convey his response to the music of others; his ideas about art, film, and dance; and, in "An Autobiographical Statement," his reflections on his own life, career, and self-fulfillment. Written between the late '30's and the early '90's, these pieces here acquire the permanence they deserve. Some have never been published before. Many appeared only in magazines, journals, and catalogues; others in concert programs and on record covers. Also included are the texts of lectures and - of crucial importance to an appreciation of his music - Cage's notes on the performance of his compositions, courtesy of his music publisher, C. F. Peters. Taken together, these writings, from their diverse sources and in their rich variety, reveal a lessknown but central aspect of the genius of a mild-mannered, deeply courageous pioneer in the arts. Dance critic Nancy Dalva has written, "John Cage taught us to listen to the world." In this book we can learn what he heard.
LCCN 92041359
ISBN0879101644 (pbk.) :
ISBN0879101636 (cloth)

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