Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Ed Crooks <>]

Dear Rob,

I'm sure it will be a great resource!

These are my nominations for the most useful/interesting/thought-provoking entries that sometimes get overlooked:

Beal, Amy C. (2007): ‘David Tudor in Darmstadt’. Contemporary Music Review

26(1), 77-88.

Brooks, William (1993): ‘John Cage and History: Hymns and Variations’.

Perspectives of New Music 31(2), 74-103.

Brooks, William (2007): ‘Pragmatics of Silence’. In: Nicky Losseff and Jenny Doctor,

eds. (2007): Silence, Music, Silent Music. Aldershot: Ashgate, 97-126.

Cage, John and Jeffrey Barnard (1980): Conversation without Feldman. Darlinghurst:

Black Ram Books.

Cage, John and Morton Feldman (1993): Radio Happenings I-V. Köln: MusicTexte.

Chou Wen-chung (1971): ‘Asian Concepts and Twentieth-Century Western

Composers’. Musical Quarterly 57(2), 211-29.

Corbett, John (2000): ‘Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others’. In:

Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. (2000): Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 163-86.

Jones, Caroline A. (1993): ‘Finishing School: John Cage and the Abstract

Expressionist Ego’. Critical Inquiry 19(4), 628-65.

Kahn, Douglas (1997): ‘John Cage: Silence and Silencing’. Musical Quarterly 81(4),

556-98.

Leonard, George J. (1994): Into the Light of Things: The Arts of the Commonplace

from Wordsworth to John Cage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Low, Sor-Ching (2006): ‘Romancing Emptiness’. Contemporary Buddhism 7(2), 129-

47.

Pepper, Ian (1997): ‘From the “Aesthetics of Indifference” to “Negative Aesthetics”:

John Cage and Germany 1958-1972’. October, no.82, 30-47.

Rainer, Yvonne (1981): ‘Looking Myself in the Mouth’. October, no.17, 65-76.

Roth, Moira and Jonathan D. Katz (1998): Difference/Indifference: Musings on

Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Amsterdam: G + B Arts International.

Said, Edward (1997): ‘From Silence to Sound and Back Again: Music, Literature, and

History’. In: Edward W. Said (2001): Reflections on Exile and Other Literary and Cultural Essays. London: Granta Books, 507-26.

Shultis, Christopher (1998): Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American

Experimental Tradition. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

best wishes

Ed Crooks

University of York