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M - Writings, 1967-72 (Paperback, New edition)
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M - Writings, 1967-72 (Paperback, New edition)
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Cage subjected the 26 letters of the alphabet to the I-Ching and
came up with the letter "M," as the title for his latest writings
which follow Mao Tse-tung's dictum: "It is right to rebel." Cage
rebels through a musical, non-syntactical, freely-associative
autobiographical cascade of words that express - indeed, celebrate
- the anarchic self as they gracefully flow down the center of the
printed page in over 700 different type faces and sizes. They cover
the years 1962-72, and are interspersed with quotations from other
soul-revolutionaries, e.g., Thoreau, Norman O. Brown, Gandhi,
Buckminster Fuller - the latter being Cage's other chief influence
along with Mao. As an anarchic composer, Cage believes in "music
that requires no rehearsal," in short, a revolutionary music "made
by everyone. . . based on noise, on noise's lawlessness." By the
same token, he believes that words, like sounds, should emerge free
of rigid relations or pre-fixed rules. Hence his attempt to
demilitarize language through his inventive form, mesostics. The
result can be intellectually simplistic, politically naive,
ecologically obvious, philosophically self-contradictory to the
point of the ridiculous, but it is always quintessentially Cage,
for Cage is as always sui generis. (Kirkus Reviews)
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