Description
About the Author
Richard Brown earned a PhD in musicology from the University of Southern California. He has published articles on John Cage, experimental music, sound art, film music and copyright in The Journal of the Society for American Music, Contemporary Music Review, Leonardo, and American Music Review.
Reviews
This history asks us to re-engage with Cage's ideas about listening and perception through the lens of moving-image culture, while also encouraging us to re-read the history of experimental film from a sonic perspective. As a result, this is not just a book about Cage or avant-garde film. It's a book about the nature of collaborative creativity, the rise of audiovisual art and the emergence of new forms of intermedial culture in the Twentieth Century. Required reading for us all! * Holly Rogers, author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art Music *
Richard Brown's meticulously researched and beautifully written book reveals that Cage's collaborations with experimental filmmakers transformed his aesthetics and compositional style. It presents a brilliant new interdisciplinary perspective on Cage's music of great interest to both Cage scholars and a broader audience of readers interested in crucial cultural changes during the twentieth-century. * David Bernstein, Professor of Music, Mills College *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190628086
Author Richard H. Brown
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Series Oxford Music/Media Series
Weight(grams) 434g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 15mm