John Cage: Composed in America

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226660575
• ISBN13: 9780226660578
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 7.9"