Cage, John

Overview

Works:	4,253 works in 8,636 publications in 4 languages and 95,618 library holdings
Roles:	Composer, Performer, Vocalist, Narrator, Conductor, Interviewee, Musician, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Dedicatee, Illustrator, Speaker, Honoree, Conceptor, Creator, Adapter, Engraver, Artist, Actor, Bibliographic antecedent, Designer, Collaborator, Photographer, Other, Director, Contributor, Lyricist, Recipient, Editor, Author of introduction, Film editor
Classifications:	ML410.C24, 780.92

Publication Timeline

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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 ( Book )
Writings through John Cage's music, poetry, and art ( )
Experimental music : Cage and beyond by Michael Nyman ( 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 )
John Cage : composed in America ( )
The Cambridge companion to John Cage ( 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 ( )
American pioneers : Ives to Cage and beyond by Alan Rich ( Book )
John Cage by David Nicholls ( Book )
John Cage : music, philosophy, and intention, 1933-1950 by David Patterson ( Book )
For the birds by John Cage ( Book )
John Cage at seventy-five ( Book )
Writings about John Cage ( Book )
John Cage by Robert Dunn ( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Cage

Silence : lectures and writings by John Cage ( Book )
98 editions published between 1960 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 3,971 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 2,390 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 )
28 editions published between 1967 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,933 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano by John Cage ( Recording )
100 editions published between 1951 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
TILBURY, John (prepared piano)

Empty words : writings '73-'78 by John Cage ( Book )
12 editions published between 1979 and 2010 in English and held by 1,413 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 )
11 editions published between 1970 and 1991 in English and German and held by 1,325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

X : writings '79-'82 by John Cage ( Book )
10 editions published between 1983 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,070 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."

Virgil Thomson: his life and music by Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover ( Book )
12 editions published between 1959 and 1970 in English and held by 893 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anarchy by John Cage ( )
4 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and held by 840 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

Liberations; new essays on the humanities in revolution by Ihab Habib Hassan ( Book )
6 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I-VI by John Cage ( Book )
10 editions published between 1990 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 750 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cage Cunningham ( Visual )
12 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in English and held by 582 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 )
16 editions published between 1959 and 1992 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano (1946-48) by John Cage ( Recording )
12 editions published between 1951 and 2007 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The 25-year retrospective concert of the music of John Cage by John Cage ( Recording )
17 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958

The Boulez-Cage correspondence by Pierre Boulez ( Book )
8 editions published between 1993 and 1999 in English and held by 462 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

Music for prepared piano by John Cage ( )
11 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sonatas and interludes [for] prepared piano by John Cage ( )
21 editions published between 1960 and 1993 in 4 languages and held by 394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music of changes; piano by John Cage ( )
15 editions published in 1961 in 3 languages and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Concerto for prepared piano & orchestra by John Cage ( Recording )
12 editions published between 1960 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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