Sound's Modest Witness: Notes on Cage and Modernism.
John Cage's work has been interpreted by various critics as representative of both modernism and postmodernism. Although scholars have focused on the aesthetic and historical dimensions of modernism, the subject can also be approached from the perspective of ontology. Specifically, Cage's work was p...
| Published in: | Contemporary Music Review Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 3 - 19 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2012
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