The Cambridge Companion to John Cage

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chronology
• Part I . Aesthetic Contexts:
• 1. Cage and America David Nicholls
• 2. Cage and Europe Christopher Shultis
• 3. Cage and Asia: history and sources David W. Patterson
• Part II . Sounds, Words, Images:
• 4. Music I: to the late 1940s David W. Bernstein
• 5. Words and writings David W. Patterson
• 6. Towards infinity: Cage in the 1950s and 1960s David Nicholls
• 7. Visual art Kathan Brown
• 8. Music II: from the late 1960s William Brooks
• Part III . Interaction and Influence:
• 9. Cage's collaborations Leta E. Miller
• 10. Cage and Tudor John Holzaepfel
• 11. Cage and high modernism David W. Bernstein
• 12. Music and society William Brooks
• 13. Cage and postmodernism Alastair Williams
• 14. No escape from heaven: John Cage as father figure Kyle Gann
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index.