Records ruin the landscape : John Cage, the sixties, and sound recording / David Grubbs.
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TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014Description: xxv, 220 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822355908 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Cage, John -- Criticism and interpretation | Improvisation (Music) -- History and criticism | Avant-garde (Music) -- History and criticism | Sound recordingsDDC classification: 780.9'04 Summary: John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In this book, 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 improvization.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In this book, 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 improvization.
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