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Records Ruin the Landscape - John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (Paperback)
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Records Ruin the Landscape - John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (Paperback)
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John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke
of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work.
In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following
Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s
were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a
recording. These activities include indeterminate music,
long-duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic
music, free jazz, and free improvisation. How could these proudly
evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented
on an LP? In their day, few of these works circulated in recorded
form. By contrast, contemporary listeners can encounter this music
not only through a flood of LP and CD releases of archival
recordings but also in even greater volume through Internet file
sharing and online resources. Present-day listeners are coming to
know that era's experimental music through the recorded artifacts
of composers and musicians who largely disavowed recordings. In
Records Ruin the Landscape, Grubbs surveys a musical landscape
marked by altered listening practices.
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