Empty Words: Writings, 1973-78 - Softcover

Cage, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714527165 ISBN 13: 9780714527161

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

Cage voices his concerns on the nature and future of music, they ways of dancers, the West's interpretation of Eastern ideas in this thought provoking collection of anecdotes and epigrams.

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Review:

"Whether sharing with us details of meals he's enjoyed on tour, transforming texts from Thoreau's Journal by I Ching operations, or digging 'mesostics' on James Joyce's name out of Finnegans Wake, he'll keep you fascinated, exasperated, or amused, depending on your reaction to this sort of thing. There are only two essays on 'music' in the book--but then, to Cage, everything is music. Recommended for freewheeling art/music/poetry collections."--Library Journal

The New York Times Book Review"

Library Journal"

John Cage is one of those few contemporaries who do important work in more than one art a master of several arts, a slave to none. Richard Kostelanetz, The New York Times Book Review"

For those who ve savored Cage s previous books, Silence (1961), A Year From Monday (1967), and M (1973), no further introduction is necessary. Whether sharing with us details of meals he s enjoyed on tour, transforming texts from Thoreau s Journal by I Ching operations, or digging mesostics on James Joyce s name out of Finnegans Wake, he ll keep you fascinated, exasperated, or amused, depending on your reaction to this sort of thing. There are only two essays on music in the book but then, to Cage, everything is music. Recommended for freewheeling art/music/poetry collections. Library Journal"

-John Cage is one of those few contemporaries who do important work in more than one art...a master of several arts, a slave to none.---Richard Kostelanetz, The New York Times Book Review

-For those who've savored Cage's previous books, Silence (1961), A Year From Monday (1967), and M (1973), no further introduction is necessary. Whether sharing with us details of meals he's enjoyed on tour, transforming texts from Thoreau's Journal by I Ching operations, or digging 'mesostics' on James Joyce's name out of Finnegans Wake, he'll keep you fascinated, exasperated, or amused, depending on your reaction to this sort of thing. There are only two essays on 'music' in the book--but then, to Cage, everything is music. Recommended for freewheeling art/music/poetry collections.---Library Journal

"John Cage is one of those few contemporaries who do important work in more than one art...a master of several arts, a slave to none."--Richard Kostelanetz "The New York Times Book Review"

"For those who've savored Cage's previous books, Silence (1961), A Year From Monday (1967), and M (1973), no further introduction is necessary. Whether sharing with us details of meals he's enjoyed on tour, transforming texts from Thoreau's Journal by I Ching operations, or digging 'mesostics' on James Joyce's name out of Finnegans Wake, he'll keep you fascinated, exasperated, or amused, depending on your reaction to this sort of thing. There are only two essays on 'music' in the book--but then, to Cage, everything is music. Recommended for freewheeling art/music/poetry collections."--Richard Kostelanetz "Library Journal"

About the Author:

John Cage, a leading figure of the American musical avant-garde and lecturer and writer extraordinary, dedicated himself to the search for new horizons in musical composition. His method of composition: an amalgam of chance operations, latitude in performace, the use of electronic sound and the inclusion of ambient noise. His aim: to increase the territory of his art and to celebrate the richness of life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0714527165
• ISBN 13: 9780714527161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200