John Cage
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.
Literature
- By Cage
- Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
- A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1969.
- Notations, New York: Something Else Press, 1969.
- Book 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.
- On Cage
- Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, 1974; 2nd ed., 1999.
- Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage, 2010.
