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* with Joan Retallack, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4092 Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music]'', Wesleyan University Press, 1996. | * with Joan Retallack, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4092 Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music]'', Wesleyan University Press, 1996. | ||
* Peter Dickinson (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1364 CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage]'', University of Rochester Press, 2006. | * Peter Dickinson (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1364 CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage]'', University of Rochester Press, 2006. | ||
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| + | * ''[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL36717592B9ED740D John Cage: From Zero]'', dir. Andrew Culver and Frank Scheffer, 85 min, 1995. | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
Revision as of 12:42, 13 December 2014
John Milton Cage Jr. (5 September 1912 – 12 August 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.
Contents
Recordings
Films
Writings
- Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1961. [1]
- A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1969.
- Notations, New York: Something Else Press, 1969.
- Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92), 3 vols., New York: Henmar Press, 1970.
- M: Writings ’67-’72, Wesleyan University Press, 1973, 217 pp.
- Empty Words: Writings ’73-’78, Wesleyan University Press, 1979, 187 pp.
- X: Writings ’78-’82, Wesleyan University Press, 1983, 187 pp.
Catalogues
- Scores and Prints, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982, 6 pp.
Interviews
- Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage, Routledge, 1987; 2nd ed., 2003.
- with Joan Retallack, Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music, Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
- Peter Dickinson (ed.), CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Documentaries
- John Cage: From Zero, dir. Andrew Culver and Frank Scheffer, 85 min, 1995.
Literature
- Barbara Rose, Not wanting to say anything about Marcel [1970], Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1971, 4 pp. (in Italian/French/English)
- Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, 1974; 2nd ed., 1999.
- William Fetterman, John Cage's Theatre Pieces. Notations and Performances.pdf, Harwood Academic, 1996; Routledge, 2010.
- David W. Bernstein, Christopher Hatch (eds.), Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art, University of Chicago Press, 2001, 310 pp.
- Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
