Cage, John

Overview

Works:	5,558 works in 12,061 publications in 4 languages and 117,084 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Interviews Biography Discography Bibliography Manuscripts History Case studies Records and correspondence Chronology
Roles:	Composer, Performer, Compiler, Vocalist, Narrator, Conductor, Interviewee, Musician, Illustrator, Dedicatee, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Speaker, Honoree, Conceptor, Artist, Creator, Adapter, Engraver, Actor, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Designer, Contributor, Collaborator, Lyricist, Recipient, Director, Editor, Photographer, Other, Film editor
Classifications:	ML410.C24, 780.92

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Publications about John Cage

Publications by John Cage

Publications by John Cage, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about John Cage

Musicage Cage muses on words, art, music by John Cage ( )
M: writings, '67-'72 by John Cage ( )
Writings through John Cage's music, poetry, and art ( )
Experimental music : Cage and beyond by Michael Nyman ( Book )
Conversing with Cage by Richard Kostelanetz ( Book )

Begin again : a biography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman ( Book )
Chance and circumstance : twenty years with Cage and Cunningham by Carolyn Brown ( Book )
The bride & the bachelors; the heretical courtship in modern art by Calvin Tomkins ( Book )
The Cambridge companion to John Cage by David Nicholls ( Book )
John Cage : composed in America ( Book )
The roaring silence : John Cage, a life by David Revill ( Book )
Where the heart beats : John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the inner life of artists by Kay Larson ( Book )
The bride and the bachelors : five masters of the avant garde by Calvin Tomkins ( Book )
The music of John Cage by James Pritchett ( Book )
American pioneers : Ives to Cage and beyond by Alan Rich ( Book )
Cage by Paul Griffiths ( Book )
John Cage by David Nicholls ( Book )
John Cage : music, philosophy, and intention, 1933-1950 by David Patterson ( Book )
Cage-Cunningham-Johns : dancers on a plane : in memory of their feelings by Susan Sontag ( Book )
For the birds by John Cage ( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Cage

Silence : lectures and writings by John Cage ( Book )
106 editions published between 1960 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 4,053 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Special edition of the book that revolutionized our understanding of how we make and experience art

American poetry : the twentieth century by The Library of America ( Book )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,384 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

A year from Monday; new lectures and writings by John Cage ( Book )
41 editions published between 1967 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,060 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano by John Cage ( Recording )
100 editions published between 1975 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,664 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
TILBURY, John (prepared piano)

Empty words writings '73-'78 by John Cage ( Book )
21 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."

John Cage by Richard Kostelanetz ( Book )
19 editions published between 1970 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 1,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

X Writings '79-'82 by John Cage ( )
16 editions published between 1983 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them, " he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions."

Anarchy by John Cage ( )
4 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and held by 956 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""That government governs best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Malatesta, not so much making arguments for anarchism as "brushing information against information," giving the very words new combinations that de-familiarize and re-energize them. Now widely available for the first time, Anarchy marks the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, composer and as a thinker about contemporary society."--Jacket

Virgil Thomson: his life and music by Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover ( Book )
12 editions published between 1959 and 1970 in English and held by 887 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Notations by John Cage ( Book )
12 editions published in 1969 in 3 languages and held by 783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Liberations; new essays on the humanities in revolution by Ihab Habib Hassan ( Book )
7 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 772 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I-VI by John Cage ( Book )
10 editions published between 1990 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 744 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cage Cunningham ( Visual )
15 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Combines archival material and eight years of world tour footage to document the 50 year collaboration between composer John Cage and dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham

Indeterminacy new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music : ninety stories with music by John Cage ( Recording )
13 editions published between 1959 and 1992 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano (1946-48) by John Cage ( Recording )
15 editions published between 1951 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 480 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The 25-year retrospective concert of the music of John Cage by John Cage ( Recording )
18 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958

The Boulez-Cage correspondence by Pierre Boulez ( Book )
9 editions published between 1993 and 1999 in English and held by 458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This small but heavily annotated correspondence between French composer Pierre Boulez and recently deceased American composer John Cage contains letters dating from 1949 to 1954, as well as supplementary documents. --from publisher description

First construction : (in metal) : percussion sextet with assistant by John Cage ( )
45 editions published between 1939 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Cage, writer : previously uncollected pieces by John Cage ( Book )
5 editions published in 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music for prepared piano by John Cage ( )
12 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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