| Description |
1 online resource (496 pages) |
| Contents |
Comes up Famous -- The Art of Noise -- East and West -- Music of Changes -- The Ten Thousand Things -- Indeterminacy -- Fractures -- HPSCHD -- Empty Words -- Apartment House -- Changes and Disappearances -- Time Brackets -- Europeras -- Anarchic Harmony -- 1992 |
| Summary |
A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talent - musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist - John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. The author presents a comprehensive look at the life of this remarkable artist. The book begins with Cage's childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and he soon began the experiments with sound and percussion instruments that would develop into his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. Cage's unorthodox methods still influence artists in a wide range of genres and media. The book concurrently follows Cage's rich personal life, from his early marriage to his lifelong personal and professional partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham, as well as his friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-424) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cage, John
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| SUBJECT |
Cage, John fast |
| Subject |
Composers -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Composers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780810166134 |
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0810166135 |
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