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Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
David Grubbs
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Description for Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
Paperback. John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In this book, the author argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill-suited to be represented in the form of a recording. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; AVGC6; AVH; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long-duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic music, free jazz, and free improvisation. How could these proudly evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented on an LP?
In their day, few of these works circulated in recorded form. ... Read more
John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long-duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic music, free jazz, and free improvisation. How could these proudly evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented on an LP?
In their day, few of these works circulated in recorded form. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822355908
SKU
V9780822355908
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About David Grubbs
David Grubbs is Associate Professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he also teaches in the M.F.A. programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts and Creative Writing. As a musician, he has released twelve solo albums and appeared on more than 150 commercially released recordings. Grubbs was a founding member of the ... Read more
Reviews for Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
“An engaging book.”
David Revill
Times Higher Education
“For compositions whose whole raison d’être is to generate a drastically different realization with every performance . . . no recording of any one performance could be said to ‘be’ the piece. . . . David Grubbs’s exhaustively researched Records Ruin the Landscape explores this dilemma specifically as it ... Read more
David Revill
Times Higher Education
“For compositions whose whole raison d’être is to generate a drastically different realization with every performance . . . no recording of any one performance could be said to ‘be’ the piece. . . . David Grubbs’s exhaustively researched Records Ruin the Landscape explores this dilemma specifically as it ... Read more