Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Graham Urquhart <>]

I'll second this. Its a great book and I was privileged to see the exhibition in Glasgow.  Had meant to drop a note to the list to say thanks to Jeremy but never quite got round to it - sorry!.   Also saw John Tilbury playing the Sonatas and Interludes in the accompanying music events which was a great evening.

Graham


On 26/06/2011 17:25, Jeremy Millar wrote:

Hello all,

Although I'm somewhat reluctant to mention it, for those interested in Cage's visual art, here's the book we published to accompany the touring exhibition of his work here in the UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Day-Good-Visual-John/dp/1853322830/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309105228&sr=1-1

The works were photographed especially for this publication and so are of the highest quality; it also contains new interviews with Laura Kuhn, Kathan Brown, Ray Kass, and Julie Lazar, and an old interview with Irving Sandler. There's also an introduction by myself, and a Cage compendium rounds things off...

Best wishes,

Jeremy

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Jeremy Millar 

http://www.jeremymillar.org

Geoffrey Farmer and Jeremy Millar

Mondegreen

Project Arts Centre

Dublin

8 July – 20 August 2011

On 26 Jun 2011, at 15:33, Stefano Pocci wrote:

On 06/25/2011 11:19 AM, Ralph Lichtensteiger wrote:

dear Jared,

Here's my Cage-literature list, in anarchic order...

hope this will inspire you.

By Cage:

M: Writings ’67–’72, 1973 by Wesleyan University Press — my favorite

X: writings '79-'82, 1983 by Wesleyan University Press

Empty Words: Writings '73-'78, 1979 by Wesleyan University Press

Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan; 1st edition (June 15, 1961) — essential

A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan; 1st edition (May 15, 1967)

Themes and Variations, Station Hill Press (June 1982) — out of print, but this is a very interesting text

I-VI: MethodStructureInten... (Cage's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures), Wesleyan (October 15, 1997)

Composition In Retrospect, Exact Change (October 1, 2008)

FOR THE BIRDS, In Conversation with Daniel Charles. 239 pp. Boston: Marion Boyars — a brilliant discussion book

John Cage Book of Days 2011, The John Cage Trust; Egmt Min edition (July 31, 2010)

Anarchy: New York City-January 1998, Wesleyan; 1st Wesleyan ed edition (July 15, 2001)

Notations, Something Else Press; First Edition edition (1969) — out of print, a great book

On Cage:

The Cambridge companion to John Cage By David Nicholls — one of the best resources about Cage

Joan Retallack, Musicage: Cage muses on Words-Art-Music, New England 1996 — discussions about art, aesthetics and concepts

Marjorie Perloff & Charles Junkerman, John Cage: Composed in America, Chicago 1994

James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993

The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life by David Revill

The Boulez-Cage Correspondence [Paperback], Jean-Jacques Nattiez (Editor), Robert Samuels (Editor), Cambridge University Press (January 27, 1995) — important correspondence document

Books and writers that influenced Cage:

Norman O. Brown, Love's Body. New York: Random House, 1966

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. (1927) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 1. London: Luzac. — essential

———. (1933) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 2. London: Luzac.

———. (1934) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 3. London: Luzac.

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art, (Sterling Pub Private Ltd, 1996)

Journal by Henry David Thoreau — essential

The Portable Thoreau (Portable Library, Penguin Books, 698 pages) — essential

Ulysses by James Joyce — essential

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

and the writings of

Gertrude Stein

Buckminster Fuller

Marshall McLuhan

Aristotle

Marcel Duchamp

Ezra Pound

Best,

Ralph Li

http://lichtensteiger.net

After reading all the books suggested on this topic I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the I-Ching yet. It's neither by Cage nor on Cage but it has certainly influenced and been a companion of him for a very long time. I didn't think of it too until I saw Ralph's extensive list by the way:-)


Speaking of Suzuki's volumes, Ralph could you please indicate a more recent reprint? (easily available) I've been wondering about buying a Zen book for a while and I guess the time is up. And thank you Caleb for pointing out Kathan Brown's volume on Cage's visual art. That's another hole I need to fill soon as well.

-- 

Stefano

"When we separate music from
 life what we get is art
 (a compendium of masterpieces)" - John Cage