Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Sebastian Berweck <>]

Looks like he became part of the New Right and mingles with far right persons. He had a bit of a career but hasn’t composed or been played since 2017, as far as I can see. His Facebook page is full of the usual right wing conspiracy crap (secret documents at Mar a Lago have been planted by CIA etc). The only see right wing websites discussing his book.

Am 19.05.2024 um 20:31 schrieb Dionysis Boukouvalas <>:

I immediately guessed Sora was European. In need of protecting the European culture.

After a little search, I found out - no surprise - he is a European "avant-garde" composer.

I use quotations because this has become something of a brand name in my eyes. It is ironic how conservative and self-serving European "avant-garde" has become after 1990. Will it ever end?

Thank god for John...

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From:  <> on behalf of Ralph Lichtensteiger <>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2024 8:02 PM
To:  <>
Subject: [silence] absurd book by Tom Sora

 

Dear all,

I just accidentally stumbled across this crazy and defamatory text about John Cage online.

The text is an excerpt from a book by author Tom Sora. He makes absurd and defamatory claims about John Cage's person and work in this book. Is the silence community known to this work?

Greetings from Germany

R. Lichtensteiger

[[ Cage's desire to abolish competence and excellence and even to ban the words they name is (also) due to resentment. A deep-lying envy is one of the reasons for his hatred of culture. His easy solidarity with the underdogs is not as altruistic as it seems at first glance. Cage has certainly not thought too much about the well-being of the disadvantaged - be it composers, students or other allegedly discriminated categories. He argued primarily from his own perspective, as a composer, because he considered himself an "underdog", a "discriminate" in the context of "old music".

Cage knew that the large audience definitely and completely rejected his art. He also knew with certainty that he was by no means one of the "big" composers and not even one of the less "big" ones, and, as we saw, he admitted that himself. His defiant sentence quoted in the previous chapter that he is "not a musician" - is basically a bitter insight. His rejection of "old music" was partly a consequence of this insight. That's why Cage has tried a "revaluation of values" in many ways. ]]

https://www.achgut.com/artikel/john_cage_und_der_neid_der_kulturkaempfer