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Index Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Acoustical Society of America, 68 Address (Cage, 1963), 107–108 Adorno, Theodore W., 12, 32–33, 42, 160n162, 168n69 Ambient works (Cage), 103 American Federation of Musicians (AFM): campaign against movies and recording , 154n44; Federal Radio Commission complaint, 154n38; strikes against recording companies, 50–52, 93–96, 153n31, 165n42, 165n44; wartime ban on recordings, 166–167n56, 166n55 American Journal of Public Health, 61 Anderson, Tim, 50 art: as anonymous activity, 139–140n13; art/life boundary blurring, 116–117; as connected to politics, 7–9; as life, 111, 172n127; Satie on, 33; as social reformation , 82–83 “artificial acoustic space,” 103 Art of Noise (Russolo), 26 Attali, Jacques, 129 audience participation, 106–115 audio architecture, 6, 79–83 Auric, George, 25 Austin, William, 10 Avraamov, Arseni, 46 Bach, J. S., 30 Barthes, Roland, 127, 129 Baudrillard, Jean, 48 Bauhaus, 37–38 BBC “Music While You Work,” 60–61, 62, 152n17 Benjamin, Walter, 42 Benson, Barbara Elna, 65, 155n51 Bertin, Pierre, 16 Besseler, Heinrich, 28–29 Big Country billboard, 100 Bishop, Claire, 119 Black Mountain College, 120 Blainville, Charles-Henri, 31 Blanchot, Maurice, 109, 171n118 Bongard, Germaine, 35 Le bon roi Dagobert, 36–37, 148–149n119, 149n120–121 Boom Electric and Amplifier, 51–52 Bradshaw, Alan, 48 Brecht, Bertholt, 101 British Industrial Health Research Board, 56–58 British Medical Journal, 63 Brooks, William, 8 Brown, Norman O., 108 Burris-Meyer, Harold, 69–70 Cage, John, 115; on American Federation of Musicians bans on recordings, 94; on Ananda Cooraswamy, 164–165n37; anarchism , 8, 124, 131, 173n146; anticapitalism , 98–99; art as social reformation, 42, 82–83; Asian influence, 93; compositional tool, 89; controversial nature, 190 index 84, 162–163n1; Eastern philosophies influence, 93, 96–97; elitism, 129–130; furniture music references, 2–9; goal, 131–132, 177n39; on Happenings, 117; ideal, 120, 125, 126–128; indeterminacy, 89; liberation of people and sounds, 132; music participation function, 92; musique d’ameublement (Satie) references, 2–9; on Muzak, 2, 163n2; Muzak-plus concept, 131–132; Muzak relationship, 4, 47, 84, 99–101, 106, 109; naiveté, 130–131, 177n33; paradoxical nature, 132; physical space and music performance, 102–103; on politics, 131; politics, 7–9; recorded music attitude, 98, 167–168n69; on recording music, 103; redefinition of art’s function in society, 42; on repetition , 105; Satie, 2–9, 14, 136n18, 136n19; on Schoenberg, 164n24; self-discovery as purpose of music, 97; silence in music, 98–99, 169n78; on social functions of musique d’ameublement (furniture music), 4; on social functions of Muzak, 4; sociopolitical viewpoint, 127–131; on Vexations (Satie, 1893), 12, 139n2; on Vexations 1963 performance, 105; Vision + Value series (1966), 1 Calvino, Italo, 119 “canned music,” 50, 93–94, 165n41. See also “functional music” Capital Transit, 93 Cardew, Cornelius, 86, 89, 92, 129–130 Cardinall, H. M., 69–70 Carrelage phonique (Phonic tiling) (Satie, 1917), 19, 107–108 Cartridge Music (Cage, 1960), 1 Cassette, 107–108 chamber music, 30, 146n93 Charles, Daniel, 124 Cheap Imitation (Cage, 1969), 3 “Chez un ‘bistrot’” (”At a ‘Bar,’” Satie), 16 Cinéma (Gallez), 39–40 Clair, René, 39–40, 41, 94 Cocteau, Jean, 25–28; American jazz influence , 26; association with Muzak, 25, 144n63; on music as background for sounds of modern life, 25–26, 145n73, 145n74; nationalism, 15, 34; neoclassicism , 15; post-futurism, 25–28 Coleman, Ornette, 84, 127 communication programming, 118–119 communitarianism v. individuation, 128, 176–177n3 “A Composer’s Confessions” (Cage lecture ), 92–93, 97 Cooraswamy, Ananda, 93, 164–165n37 Le Coq et l’arlequin (Cocteau), 27–28 Le Corbusier, 15, 81–82, 109, 148n112 Correlage Phonique (Satie), 3 Cortot, Alfred, 21 “counterfeit music,” 35 Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft ) (Kant, 1790), 30–31, 146n94–96 The Crossing Point (Richards), 131 Cunningham, Merce, 115, 116 cybernetics, 123–124 Dadaism, 15, 18 Dahlhaus, Carl, 28 Dans Macabre (Saint-Saëns), 19–20 Davis, Miles, 96 Debord, Guy, 85 Debussy, Claude, 14, 140n20 Decoder (Maeck), 4 De Leeuw, Reinbert, 103 Derrida, Jacques, 132 earworms, 70–75, 159–160n160 “The East in the West” (Cage, 1946), 96–97 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Kaprow, 1959), 117, 119 Eisler, Hanns, 40, 150n139 Eno, Brian, 80–81, 102, 169–179n93 Entr’acte (Clair), 39–40, 94 “environmental music,” 47 “Fatigue and Boredom in Repetitive Work,” 56–58, 157n91 Federal Radio Commission, 50–52, 154n58 feedback, 120 Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), 12 film soundtracks, 39–41, 150n139 Fiore, Quentin, 47 Foster, Hal, 5 Foucault, Michel, 72 4’33” (Cage, 1952...

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