Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage
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Lunberry, C. (2012). Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage. Current Musicology, (94). https://doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i94.5237

Abstract

2012 marked what would have been the composer and writer John Cage’s 100th birthday, offering a nice round numbered moment to commemorate and reevaluate Cage’s lasting legacy. And it is a rich and still, astonishingly, controversial legacy, bringing forth bold assessments of Cage that range, as they have for decades, from worshipful acclaim, to ridiculing rejection. It seems with Cage, still, that it’s either black or white, love or hate; that he is either a saintly prophet of new sounds, new silences, or a foolish charlatan leading anarchically astray.

https://doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i94.5237
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