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John Cage - A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

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John Cage - A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
 

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Cage's Second Collection of Essays- perfect examples of his "global" period

Date of Review:  Sep 21, 2006
The Bottom Line: Read Silence to understand Cage's aesthetics. Read AYFM to understand Cage the person.
Review: If Silence is Cage's ultimate aesthetic document, then A Year From Monday is his ultimate global or social document. Many find Cage far more meaningful as a social thinker, philosopher, or cult of personality than an actual musical composer (even I,...
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by: siriustemplar
Recommended to buy: Yes

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interesting, well written, more focused...
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still too obtuse and confusing for...
 
 
 

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  New York Review of Books: "[Cage's] ultimate aim was to produce a homogenized chaos that would carry no program, no plot, no reminders of the history of beauty, and no personal statement. Nowadays, of course, we can recognize in such an ideal the whole effort of pop art. But I do not think that pop art's obvious jokes and facile sentiments were a major motive. I think Cage wanted, had always wanted, to save music from itself by removing its narcotic qualities and its personalized pretentiousness, as well as all identifiable structure and rhetoric....A Year From Monday is a joke-book, the clownings of a professional celebrity who has admired Gertrude Stein and played chess with Marcel Duchamp."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr (May 01, 1967)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 7.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9780819560025
 
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