Richard H. Jr Brown

Through The Looking Glass (eBook, PDF)

John Cage and Avant-Garde Film

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience for the overall aesthetic surrounding Cage's career. As the commercially dominant media form in the twentieth century, cinema transformed the way listeners were introduced to and consumed music. Cage's quest to redefine music, intentionality, and expression reflect the similar transformation of music within the larger audiovisual experience of sound film. This volume examines key moments in Cage's career where cinema either informed or transformed his position on the nature of sound, music, expression, and the ontology of the musical artwork. The examples point to moments of rupture within Cage's own consideration of the musical artwork, pointing to newfound collision points that have a significant and heretofore unacknowledged role in Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190628093
• Artikelnr.: 54660554

Autorenporträt

Richard Brown earned a PhD in musicology from the University of Southern California. He has published articles on John Cage, experimental music, sound art, film music and copyright in The Journal of the Society for American Music, Contemporary Music Review, Leonardo, and American Music Review.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Audiovisual(ity/ology)
* Chapter 1: The Spirit inside Each Object: Oskar Fischinger, Sound
Phonography, and the "Inner Eye"
* Chapter 2: "Dreams that Money Can Buy": Trance, Myth, and Expression,
1941-1948.
* Chapter 3: Losing the Ground: Chance, Transparency and Cinematic
Space, 1948-1958
* Chapter 4: Cinema Delimina: Post-Cagean Aesthetics,
Medium-Specificity, and Expanded Cinema
* Conclusion: "Through the Looking Glass": Poetics and Chance in John
Cage's One
* Bibliography
* Index