Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition Fifty years later comes a beautiful new edition with a foreword by eminent music critic Kyle Gann..Silence, John Cage’s first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. A landmark book in American arts and culture, Sil
| TITLE | : | Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition |
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| RATING | : | 4.52 (567 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0819573655 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 312 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-07-06 |
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Silence, John Cage’s first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching. Fifty years later comes a beautiful new edition with a foreword by eminent music critic Kyle Gann. A landmark book in American arts and culture, Silence has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over half a million copies worldwide. Wesleyan University Press is proud to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication with this special hardcover edition.
EDITORIAL :
“As the unchallenged father figure of American experimental music, Mr. Cage wields an influence that extends far beyond sound alone. Indeed, the entire American avant-garde would be unthinkable without Mr. Cage’s music, writings, and genially patriarchical personality.”—John Rockwell, The New York Times
REVIEW :
I like this book. The publishers have made numerous changes to format, style,
and content, and not one of them is for the better.
Format: The new edition has more clutter than ever in the margins.
Just about every page contains a distracting and usually irrelevant
sidebar, and color photographs (likewise irrelevant) push their way
into the text everywhere, as if the deisgners were trying to show off
their collection of pictures and their ability to flow text around
them. I feel so good knowing there are writers like this out there in comics. I like being able to draw from recent scientific evidence when formulating interventions with clients. It prepares you for what it would be like to stay in an emergency shelter, so that when faced with an evacuation you aren't as stressed. Then it goes through how to meet a potential partner, asking them out,
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