Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition - Hardcover
John Cage is one of the most frequently misunderstood of modern artists. This book offers a new way of approaching Cage's work by exploring the similarities between a number of American experimental composers and literary figures.
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Composer and writer CHRISTOPHER SHULTIS is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico.
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“By carefully documenting Thoreau’s impact upon Cage’s music and thought, his book makes an important contribution to the growing field of Cage research.”—David W. Bernstein, American Music
“[T]his is an intellectually stimulating, wide-ranging and eminently convincing interdisciplinary book. Christopher Shultis has something to say, and he says it; in doing so, he provides a much-needed ‘context by which John Cage can be placed in the disciplines of poetry and music.’”—David Nicholls, Music and Letters
“The significance of this study lies not only in its many revelations about the pervasive influence of the work of Henry David Thoreau on the music of John Cage, but also in what it reveals about the evolution of American music throughout the past century and beyond.” —Thomas DeLio, composer and author
“Since its first publication some fifteen years ago, Christopher Shultis’s Silencing the Sounding Self has been foundational in the intellectual history of American experimentalism. By focussing on John Cage's complex body of work through the lens of a philosophical consideration of his forefathers Emerson, Thoreau, and Ives, Shultis does something useful and important. This eloquent book continues to be a model for future scholars in musicology, literature, and American studies.”—Amy C. Beal, author of New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification and Carla Bley
“[T]his is an intellectually stimulating, wide-ranging and eminently convincing interdisciplinary book. Christopher Shultis has something to say, and he says it; in doing so, he provides a much-needed ‘context by which John Cage can be placed in the disciplines of poetry and music.’”—David Nicholls, Music and Letters
“The significance of this study lies not only in its many revelations about the pervasive influence of the work of Henry David Thoreau on the music of John Cage, but also in what it reveals about the evolution of American music throughout the past century and beyond.” —Thomas DeLio, composer and author
“Since its first publication some fifteen years ago, Christopher Shultis’s Silencing the Sounding Self has been foundational in the intellectual history of American experimentalism. By focussing on John Cage's complex body of work through the lens of a philosophical consideration of his forefathers Emerson, Thoreau, and Ives, Shultis does something useful and important. This eloquent book continues to be a model for future scholars in musicology, literature, and American studies.”—Amy C. Beal, author of New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification and Carla Bley
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- PublisherNortheastern Univ Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1555533779
- ISBN 13 9781555533779
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages180
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