04571cam a2200757 4500 545477862 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307594570 0307594572 B003F3PMM0 Amazon a68dd567-dcee-483e-904a-f9a6b9353de9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 167290 167290 167290 470709 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Silverman, Kenneth. Begin Again [Libby] : A Biography of John Cage. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. Biography. history of music. Literary Criticism. autobiographies. Writing. philosophy. Autobiography. art. composition. Conducting. biographies. Essays. Music. Pop Culture. Music Biography. books on music. books about music. music books. musician biographies. biographies of famous people. music biographies. music book. composing music. music biographies and autobiographies. books about musicians. musician biography books. gifts for musicians. gifts for the musician. musicians biographies and autobiographies. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6400kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Music. Philosophy. Nonfiction. HTML:John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. We follow Cage from his Los Angeles childhood—his father was a successful inventor—through his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of creativity in him and, after his return to the States, into his studies with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg. We see Cage’s early experiments with sound and percussion instruments, and watch as he develops his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. We learn of his many friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers; of his early marriage and several lovers, both female and male; and of his long relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would collaborate on radically unusual dances that continue to influence the worlds of both music and dance.<br /> <br /> Drawing on interviews with Cage’s contemporaries and friends and on the enormous archive of his letters and writings, and including photographs, facsimiles of musical scores, and Web links to illustrative sections of his compositions, Silverman gives us a biography of major significance: a revelatory portrait of one of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/A68/DD5/67/BeginAgainABiographyofJohnCage9780307594570.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A68DD567-DCEE-483E-904A-F9A6B9353DE9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/A68/DD5/67/BeginAgainABiographyofJohnCage9780307594570.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A68DD567-DCEE-483E-904A-F9A6B9353DE9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/A68/DD5/67/BeginAgainABiographyofJohnCage9780307594570.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A68DD567-DCEE-483E-904A-F9A6B9353DE9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)