The Cambridge companion to John Cage / edited by David Nicholls. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to John Cage / edited by David Nicholls. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to John Cage / edited by David Nicholls. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Cage and America / David Nicholls -- Cage and Europe / Christopher Shultis -- Cage and Asia : history and sources / David W. Patterson -- Music I : to the late 1940s / David W. Bernstein -- Words and writings / Towards infinity, Cage in the 1950s and 1960s / Visual art / Kathan Brown -- Music II : f...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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Summary
John Cage (1912-1992) was without doubt one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century music. Pupil of Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Marcel Duchamp, and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, among others, he spent much of his career in pursuit of an unusual goal: 'giving up control so that sounds can be sounds', as he put it. This book celebr...
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The Cambridge companion to John Cage / edited by David Nicholls. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions online.
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Cambridge companions to music
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-276) and index.
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English
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74VKVw6EWVLX
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ISBN
1-139-00227-9
1-139-81637-3
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780/.92 B
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991023962528302626
