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CageTalk - Dialogues with and about John Cage (Paperback)
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CageTalk - Dialogues with and about John Cage (Paperback)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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John Cage was one of America's most renowned composers from the
1940s until his death in 1992. But he was also a much-admired
writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to
present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. As an interview
subject he was a consummate professional.
The main source of "CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage"
is a panoply of vivid and compulsively readable interviews given to
Peter Dickinson in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary.
The original BBC program lasted an hour but the full discussions
with Cage and many of the main figures connected with him have
remained unpublished until now.
"CageTalk" also includes earlier BBC interviews with Cage,
including ones by the renowned literary critic Frank Kermode and
art critic David Sylvester. And the editor Peter Dickinson
contributes little-known source material about Cage's "Musicircus"
and "Roaratorio" as well as a substantial introduction exploring
the multiple roles that Cage's varied and challenging output played
during much of the twentieth century and continues to play in the
early twenty-first.
Apart from the long interview with Cage himself, there are
discussions with Bonnie Bird, Earle Brown, Merce Cunningham, Minna
Lederman, Otto Luening, Jackson Mac Low, Peadar Mercier, Pauline
Oliveros, John Rockwell, Kurt Schwertsik, Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Virgil Thomson, David Tudor, La Monte Young, and Paul Zukovsky.
Most of the interviews were given to Peter Dickinson but there are
others involving Rebecca Boyle, Anthony Cheevers, Michael Oliver,
and Roger Smalley.
Peter Dickinson, British composer and pianist, is Emeritus
Professor, University of Keele and University of London, and has
written or edited several books about twentieth-century music,
including "Copland Connotations" Boydell Press, 2002] and "The
Music of Lennox Berkeley" Boydell Press, 2003].
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