Cage, John

Overview

Works:	6,152 works in 15,133 publications in 7 languages and 149,757 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Interviews Biography Experimental films Discographies Bibliography Manuscripts Short films Drama
Roles:	Author, Composer, Performer, Narrator, Actor, Conductor, Singer, Interviewee, Instrumentalist, Illustrator, Musician, Arranger, Speaker, Dedicatee, Artist, Honoree, Creator, Conceptor, Contributor, Other, zxx, Adapter, Editor, Engraver, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Designer, Photographer, Lyricist, Recipient, Director, pan, Collector, Film editor
Classifications:	ML410.C24, 780.924

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Cage

Experimental music : Cage and beyond by Michael Nyman( Book )
Begin again : a biography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman( Book )
Conversing with Cage by Richard Kostelanetz( 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 )

Where the heart beats : John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the inner life of artists by Kay Larson( Book )
The Cambridge companion to John Cage by David Nicholls( Book )
John Cage : composed in America( Book )
The bride and the bachelors : five masters of the avant garde by Calvin Tomkins( Book )
The roaring silence : John Cage, a life by David Revill( Book )
The music of John Cage by James Pritchett( Book )
M : writings '67-'72 by John Cage( Book )
American pioneers : Ives to Cage and beyond by Alan Rich( Book )
Musicage : Cage muses on words, art, music by John Cage( Book )
Cage by Paul Griffiths( Book )
John Cage by David Nicholls( Book )
For the birds by John Cage( Book )
Silencing the sounded self : John Cage and the American experimental tradition by Christopher Shultis( Book )
Writings through John Cage's music, poetry, and art by David W Bernstein( Book )
John Cage and Buddhist ecopoetics by Peter Jaeger( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Cage

Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano by John Cage( )

138 editions published between 1951 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 2,425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

TILBURY, John (prepared piano)

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,352 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

Silence : lectures and writings by John Cage( Book )

147 editions published between 1939 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 2,325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Silence, John Cage's first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching. Fifty years later comes a beautiful new edition with a foreword by eminent music critic Kyle Gann. A landmark book in American arts and culture, Silence has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over half a million copies worldwide. -- Book jacket

A year from Monday : new lectures and writings by John Cage( Book )

52 editions published between 1967 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Cage by Richard Kostelanetz( Book )

17 editions published between 1970 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 1,101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sonatas & interludes by John Cage( )

58 editions published between 1009 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 891 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Virgil Thomson: his life and music by Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover( Book )

16 editions published between 1959 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 868 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Empty words : writings '73-'78 by John Cage( Book )

28 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 822 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."

Notations by John Cage( Book )

19 editions published in 1969 in 3 languages and held by 797 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book illustrates a collection of music manuscripts which was made in recent years to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts ... The text for the book is the result of a process employing I-Ching chance operations. These determined how many words regarding his work were to be written by or about which of two hundred and sixty-nine composers. Where these passages (never more than sixty-four words, sometimes only one) have been especially written for this book, they are preceded by a paragraph sign and followed by the author's name. Other remarks were chosen or written by the editors--John Cage and Alison Knowles. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too--letter size, intensity, and typeface--were all determined by chance operations. This process was followed in order to lessen the difference between text and illustrations."--Preface

I-VI by John Cage( Book )

20 editions published between 1990 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 731 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Features Cage reading a mesostic (a literary form generated by chance operations) to allow the listener to experience it as delivered; also features a selection from the question-and-answer seminars that conveys the lively flavor of the event

Liberations; new essays on the humanities in revolution by Ihab Hassan( Book )

11 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The authors of these essays were associated with the Wesleyan Center for the Humanities to search a central theme: the Humanities in Revolution. True liberations engage some deep energy, quiddity, or humor of life, and this is what the present authors attempt to engage. A post-humanism is in the making. The authors do not summon from the future a complete shape. They speak deeply of certain issues and concerns. More, they qualify, challenge, and instigate. (Author/CK)

Music for prepared piano by John Cage( )

11 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 686 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cage Cunningham by Elliot Caplan( Visual )

21 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 640 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

The 25-year retrospective concert of the music of John Cage by John Cage( Recording )

30 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958

Maya Deren : experimental films by Maya Deren( Visual )

7 editions published between 1943 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 612 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ritual in transfigured time: In this surreal silent avant garde film Deren weaves together her interest in dance with the exploration of myth and symbol, using movement and gestural play as a metaphor for courtship, sexual union, and fear of rejection, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend

Music of changes by John Cage( Recording )

51 editions published between 1978 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 587 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

X : writings '79-'82 by John Cage( Book )

23 editions published between 1983 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 580 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Works for percussion by John Cage( Recording )

30 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First Construction (in Metal) for prepared piano & percussion / Second Construction for percussion / Third Construction for percussion / Amores I-IV for prepared piano & percussion / Double Music for percussion / She Is Asleep for voice, prepared piano & percussion / Imaginary Landscape No.2 for percussion

Anarchy by John Cage( Book )

5 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 236 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

M : writings '67-'72 by John Cage( Book )

34 editions published between 1972 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 200 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"--Composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau

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Related Identities

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Kostelanetz, Richard Other Editor Lyricist Author of introduction Author Interviewer Compiler
Rauschenberg, Robert 1925-2008 Set designer Etcher Performer Artist Interviewee Designer Author Costume designer
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Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968 Bibliographic antecedent Interviewee Other Author
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