This volume looks at the creative work of the great avantgardist John Cagefrom an exciting interdisciplinary perspective exploring his activities as acomposer p... » 

This volume looks at the creative work of the great avantgardist John Cagefrom an exciting interdisciplinary perspective exploring his activities as acomposer performer thinker and artist.The essays in this collection grew out of a pivotal gathering during which aspectrum of participants including composers music scholars and visualartists literary critics poets and filmmakers convened to examine Cagesextraordinary artistic legacy. Beginning with David Bernsteins introductoryessay on the reception of Cages music the volume addresses topics rangingfrom Cages reluctance to discuss his homosexuality to his work as a performerand musician and his forwardlooking provocative experimentation withelectronic and other media. Several of the essays draw upon previously unseensketches and other source materials. Also included are transcripts of livelypanel discussions among some of Cages former colleagues. Taken together thiscollection is a muchneeded contribution to the study of one of the mostsignificant American artists of the twentieth century. «