The Process That Is the World - Cage/Deleuze/Events/Performances

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage''s philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition, but an extensive argument about the nature of reality itself, the construction of subjects within that reality, and the manner in which subjectivity and a self-creative world exist in productive tension with one another. Over the course of the study, these themes are developed in the realms of the ontology of a musical work, performance practices, ethics, and eventually a study of Cagean politics and the connection between aesthetic experience and the generation of new forms of collective becoming-together. The vision of Cage that emerges through this study is not simply that of the maverick composer or the "inventor of genius," but of a thinker and artist responding to insights about the world-as-process as it extends through the philosophical, artistic, and ethical registers: the world as potential for variance, reinvention, and permanent revolution.>

About the author

Joe Panzner is a lecturer in Music History at the Ohio State University and Capital University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Panzner
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781628925715
• ISBN: 978-1-62892-571-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theory of music & musicology, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology