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Low, Sor Ching.

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Religion and the invention(s) of John Cage.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Religion and the invention(s) of John Cage./
作者:	Low, Sor Ching.
面頁冊數:	212 p.
附註:	Adviser: Richard Pilgrim.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3266301
ISBN:	9780549042563

Religion and the invention(s) of John Cage.
Low, Sor Ching.

Religion and the invention(s) of John Cage. - 212 p.

Adviser: Richard Pilgrim.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2007.

The seminal encounter between East and West during the 1950s, in particular, between Zen Buddhism and avant-garde art is the framing context of this dissertation. By focusing on the writer, composer, musical philosopher and visual artist, John Cage, this thesis examines the extent to which Asian religions influenced his aesthetics and music. Cage was at the center of the avant-garde movement during the 1950s and had a profound impact on his contemporaries, including many who wrote music entirely different from his own. With his introduction of noise, the prepared piano and the percussion orchestra to contemporary music, and the adoption of chance and indeterminacy in his compositions, Cage overturned the concept of music from its Renaissance ideal of form and structure as the means or purveyor of a unique and personal artistic vision.

ISBN: 9780549042563Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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