1920's High SchoolYearbook featuringstudents and teachers, activities and sports, candids and local advertisement, and including graduating senior and future avant-garde modernist composer John Cage who appears in graduating class and club pictures. Great condition, photos and vintage design.John Cagewas an Americancomposer and theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-waravant-garde, and he has beenlauded as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.He was also instrumental in the development ofmodern dance, especially through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham.Cage amongst other things is known for his 1952 composition 4'33",which is performed in theabsence of deliberate sound; the content is about the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance.The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic.Cage was also a pioneer of theprepared piano (piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces. The best known of these is Sonatas and Interludes.(1946–48).Cage's major influences lay in various East and South Asian cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhismin the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951.TheI Ching, an ancient Chinese classic textdecision-making tool, which uses chance operations to suggest answers to questions one may pose, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lecture,Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living".[
Very Good Condition hardback with tight binding and textand clean pages, with no must or mildew or missing pieces, and mild wear to the cover. Clean and Solid.
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