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Silence Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

Hardcover • 2011 • English

Silence Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

By John Cage

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Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through"). John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review sai...Show more

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ISBN

9780819571762

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Silence Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

Format

Hardcover

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