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John Cage: Composed in America

by Marjorie Perloff
John Cage: Composed in America

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When the great avant-gardist John Cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. But Cage never thought of himself as only (or even primarily) a composer; he was a poet, a visual artist, a philosophical thinker, and an important cultural critic.

John Cage: Composed in America is the first book-length work to address the "other" John Cage, a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. Cage, as these original essays testify, is a contradictory figure. A disciple of Duchamp and Schoenberg, Satie and Joyce, he created compositions that undercut some of these artists' central principles and then attributed his own compositional theories to their "tradition." An American in the Emerson-Thoreau mold, he paradoxically won his biggest audience in Europe. A freewheeling, Californian artist, Cage was committed to a severe work ethic and a firm discipline, especially the discipline of Zen Buddhism.

Following the text of Cage's lecture-poem "Overpopulation and Art," delivered at Stanford shortly before his death and published here for the first time, ten critics respond to the challenge of the complexity and contradiction exhibited in his varied work. In keeping with Cage's own interdisciplinarity, the critics approach that work from a variety of disciplines: philosophy (Daniel Herwitz, Gerald L. Bruns), biography and cultural history (Thomas S. Hines), game and chaos theory (N. Katherine Hayles), music culture (Jann Pasler), opera history (Herbert Lindenberger), literary and art criticism (Marjorie Perloff), cultural poetics (Gordana P. Crnkovic, Charles Junkerman), and poetic practice (Joan Retallack). But such labels are themselves confining: each of the essays sets up boundaries only to cross them at key points. The book thus represents, to use Cage's own phrase, a much needed "beginning with ideas."


About the Author

Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Poetics in a New Key and Unoriginal Genius, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction - Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman

Overpopulation and Art - John Cage

"nEw / foRms of living together": The Model of the Musicircus - Charles Junkerman

"Then Not Yet 'Cage'": The Los Angeles Years, 1912-1938 - Thomas S. Hines

"A duchamp unto my self": "Writing through" Marcel - Marjorie Perloff

Inventing a Tradition: Cage's "Composition in Retrospect" - Jann Pasler

Regulated Anarchy: The Europeras and the Aesthetics of Opera - Herbert Lindenberger

Utopian America and the Language of Silence - Gordana P. Crnkovic

John Cage's Approach to the Global - Daniel Herwitz

Poethics: John Cage and Stanley Cavell at the Crossroads of Ethical Theory - Gerald L. Bruns

Chance Operations: Cagean Paradox and Contemporary Science - N. Katherine Hayles

Poethics of a Complex Realism - Joan Retallack

Appendix

List of Contributors

Index


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ISBN:
9780226660578
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/01/1994
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Language:
English
Edition:
2
Pages:
296
Height:
.80IN
Width:
6.69IN
LCCN:
93036325
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1994
Series Volume:
11-68
UPC Code:
2800226660570
Editor:
Charles Junkerman
Author:
rloff
Author:
Marjorie Perloff
Editor:
Marjorie Perloff
Editor:
Marjorie; Junkerman, Charles Perloff
Author:
Charles Junkerman
Author:
Marjorie Pe
Subject:
Music-Individual Composer and Musician
Subject:
Music
Subject:
Cage, John - Ethics
Subject:
Ethics
Subject:
General Music
Subject:
Cage, John--Criticism and interpretation
Subject:
Cage, John
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Music -- United States -- Philosophy and aesthetics.

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