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Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage. By Kenneth Silverman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2012

David Nicholls*
Affiliation:
D.R.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2012

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References

1 Nicholls, David, John Cage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007)Google Scholar.

2 Cage, John, Silence: Lectures and Writings (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961)Google Scholar.

3 Kostelanetz, Richard, John Cage (London: Allen Lane, 1971)Google Scholar.

4 Quoted in Katz, Jonathan D., “John Cage's Queer Silence; or, How to Avoid Making Matters Worse,” in Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art, ed. Bernstein, David W. and Hatch, Christopher (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 41CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 The reference here is to Wilfrid Mellers's remark on the jacket of the first British imprint of Silence (London: Boyars, 1961).