In re: 'Experimental Music'

TY - JOUR

T1 - In re: 'Experimental Music'

AU - Brooks, William

PY - 2012/6/21

Y1 - 2012/6/21

N2 - 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).

AB - 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).

KW - John Cage

KW - Lejaren Hiller

KW - experimental music

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866118552&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/07494467.2012.712282

DO - 10.1080/07494467.2012.712282

M3 - Article

SN - 0749-4467

VL - 31

SP - 37

EP - 62

JO - Contemporary Music Review

JF - Contemporary Music Review

IS - 1

T2 - Nouvelle perspectives sur l'oeuvre musicale et plastique de John Cage

Y2 - 21 June 2012 through 22 June 2012

ER -