I-VI (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

by John Cage

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Without doubt the most influential American composer of the last half century, John Cage has had an enormous impact not only on music but on art, literature, the performing arts, and aesthetic thought in general. His insistent exploration of "nonintention" and his fruitful merging of Western and Eastern traditions have made him a powerful force in the world of the avant-garde.

There have never been lectures like these: delivered at Harvard in 1988-89 as the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, they were more like performances, as the audience heard them. Cage calls them "mesostics," a literary form generated by chance (in...

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  • ISBN10 0674440072
  • ISBN13 9780674440074
  • Publish Date 3 March 1990
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 29 April 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 464
  • Language English