David Nicholls (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to John Cage

Herausgeber: Cross, Jonathan; Nicholls, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Celebrates the richness and diversity of Cage's achievements, providing a rounded portrait of an influential composer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521789684
• ISBN-10: 0521789680
• Artikelnr.: 20977953

Autorenporträt

David Nicholls is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. Author of American Experimental Music, 1890-1940 (Cambridge, 1990) and editor of The Cambridge History of American Music (Cambridge, 1998) and numerous articles on topics in American music, he has also acted as contributing editor for the reissue of Henry Cowell''s New Musical Resources (CUP, 1996) and The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium (1997). He is also editor of the journal American Music.

© Kristofer Samuelsson

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Part I. Aesthetic Contexts: 1. Cage and America David Nicholls
2. Cage and Europe Christopher Shultis
3. Cage and Asia: history and sources David W. Patterson
Part II. Sounds, Words, Images: 4. Music I: to the late 1940s David W. Bernstein
5. Words and writings David W. Patterson
6. Towards infinity: Cage in the 1950s and 1960s David Nicholls
7. Visual art Kathan Brown
8. Music II: from the late 1960s William Brooks
Part III. Interaction and Influence: 9. Cage's collaborations Leta E. Miller
10. Cage and Tudor John Holzaepfel
11. Cage and high modernism David W. Bernstein
12. Music and society William Brooks
13. Cage and postmodernism Alastair Williams
14. No escape from heaven: John Cage as father figure Kyle Gann
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index.