Conversing with Cage

List of contents

Preface, ONE: Autobiography, TWO: Precursors, THREE: His Own Music (to 1970), FOUR: His Own Music (after 1970), FIVE: His Performances, SIX: His Writings, SEVEN: Radio and Audiotape, EIGHT: Visual Arts, NINE: Dance, TEN: Successors, ELEVEN: Esthetics, TWELVE: Pedagogy, THIRTEEN: Social Philosophy, Coda, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Some of the Interviewers, Index

About the author

Richard Kostelanetz has authored over 40 books of criticism of contemporary music and the arts. He is noted as one of the first critics to recognize the importance of John Cage, and has written and collected several books on Cage and his work. He is a long-time resident of SoHo in New York City.

Summary

Conversing With Cage draws on over 150 interviews with Cage to give a full picture of his life and art. The book offers insight into his personality as well as a compact summary of his numerous thoughts on art, life and music.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kostelanetz, Kostelanetz Richard
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415937917
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93791-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 635 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, The arts: general topics