Musicage : Cage muses on words, art, music /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Retallack, Joan. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, [1996] |
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| Summary: | The entire range of John Cage's work & thought, explored in three wide-ranging dialogues, which constitute his last unified statement on his art. |
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| Physical Description: | xlvii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page xliv-xlvii) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0819552852 |
| Author Notes: | Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 and studied music privately, becoming a teacher at the Chicago School of Design in 1941. Between 1944 and 1966, he was musical director at Merce Cunningham and Dance Co., and in 1949 he won a Guggenheim fellowship. Cage wrote Virgil Thompson: His Life and Music (1959). His essays and lectures on music were collected into several books, including Silence: Selected Lectures and Writings (1961) and A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (1967). 030 |