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  • Postlude: Not an End

    Brooks, W., Bashford, C. & Magee, G., 1 Oct 2019, Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I. Brooks, W., Bashford, C. & Magee, G. (eds.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, p. 241-244 5 p. (Music in American Life).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Interlude: The Middle

    Brooks, W., Magee, G. & Bashford, C., 1 Oct 2019, Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I. Brooks, W., Bashford, C. & Magee, G. (eds.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, p. 115-124 10 p. (Music in American Life).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Prelude: Beginnings

    Brooks, W., Bashford, C. & Magee, G. S., 1 Oct 2019, Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I. Brooks, W., Magee, G. & Bashford, C. (eds.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, p. 1-11 12 p. (Music in American Life).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Over Here, Over There: the Great War and its Musical Consequences

    Brooks, W. F. (ed.), Bashford, C. (ed.) & Magee, G. S. (ed.), 1 Oct 2019, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 266 p. (Music in American Life)

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • Of Stars, Soldiers, Mothers, and Mourning

    Brooks, W. F., 1 Oct 2019, Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic conversations on the music of World War I. Brooks, W., Bashford, C. & Magee, G. (eds.). Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, p. 199-223 24 p. (Music in American Life).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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In re: 'Experimental Music'

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JournalContemporary Music Review
DatePublished - Feb 2012
Issue number1
Volume31
Number of pages26
Pages (from-to)37–62
Original languageEnglish

Abstract

John Cage is universally associated with the phrase “experimental music.” But what did that phrase mean, for Cage and for Cage’s predecessors? I begin with Cage and Lejaren Hiller, both writing important texts on “experimental music” in 1959. From there I trace the phrase backwards, eventually reaching Émile Zola, Gertrude Stein, and William James. A final section traces the phrase forward to Cage and Hiller’s collaboration on HPSCHD (1969).

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  • John Cage, Lejaren Hiller, experimental music

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