Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage

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DOCUMENTATION ABBREVIATIONS The following notes use several space-saving abbreviations. Four archives that hold major collections of Cage’s papers are identified in abbreviated form: Getty: Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles LC: Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York NWU: Music Library, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL UCSD: Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego Titles of editions of John Cage’s writings are similarly condensed: A: anarchy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. AYM: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1969. CIR: composition in retrospect. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1993. EW: Empty Words: Writings ’73-’78. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. J: James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet. John Cage Trust, 2001. M: M: Writings ’67-’72. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. N: Notations. New York: Something Else Press, 1969. O: I-VI. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. S: Silence: Lectures and Writings. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. T: Themes & Variations. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1982. X: X: Writings ’79-’82. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. SECONDARY WORKS The following secondary works are cited in the notes simply by author or title. The list does not include brief items such as newspaper reviews, whose sources the notes cite in full. Abe, Masao, ed. A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered. New York: Weatherhill, 1986. Adams, John D. S. “Giant Oscillations: The Birth of Toneburst.” Musicworks 69 (Dec 1997), 14–17. Altshuler, Bruce. “The Cage Class.” In FluxAttitudes, pp. 17–23. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992. 41 6 · DOCUMENTATION Art & Design. Vol. 8, nos. 1–2 (1993). Art Performs Life: Merce Cunningham/Meredith Monk/Bill T. Jones. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1998. Austin, Larry. “John Cage’s Williams Mix (1951–3): the restoration and new realisations of and variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition.” In A Handbook to Twentieth Century Musical Sketches, edited by Patricia Hall and Friedmann Sallis, pp. 189–213. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Barnard, Geoffrey, and John Cage. Conversation Without Feldman. N.p.: Black Ram Books, 1980. Beal, Amy C. “The Army, the Airwaves, and the Avant-Garde: American Classical Music in Postwar West Germany.” American Music 21, no. 4 (Winter 2003); pp. 474–513. ———. “Patronage and Reception History of American Experimental Music in West Germany, 1945–1986.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1999. Bernstein, David W., and Christopher Hatch, eds. Writings Through John Cage’s Music, Poetry, + Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Bischoff, Ulrich, ed. Kunst als Grenzbeschreitung: John Cage und die Modern. Munich: Neue Pinakothek, 1991. Bois, Yve-Alain, et al. Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948–1954. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1992. Boulez, Pierre. The Boulez-Cage Correspondence. Edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Breur, Karin, et al., eds. Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Brown, Carolyn. Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Brown, Kathan. ink, paper, metal, wood. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. ———. John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind. San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2000. Browne, Ellen Von Volkenburg, and Edward Nordhoff Beck, eds. Miss Aunt Nellie: The Autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964. Cabanne, Pierre. Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp. N.p.: Da Capo Press, 1987. Cameron, Catherine M. Dialectics in the Arts: The Rise of Experimentalism in American Music. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Campana, Deborah Ann. “Form and Structure in the Music of John Cage.” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1985. Chadabe, Joel. Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. Charles, Daniel. For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles. 1981. Reprint Boston: Marion Boyars, 1995. cinema now: stan brakhage john cage jonas mekas stan vanderbeek. N.p.: University of Cincinnati, 1968. Clarkson, Austin, ed. On the Music of Stefan Wolpe: Essays and Recollections. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2003. DOCUMENTATION · 417 Cobussen, Marcel. “The Gift of Silence.” www.cobussen.com. Cope, David. “An Interview with John Cage.” Composer Magazine 10–11 (1980); pp. 6–22. Copeland, Roger. Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance. New York: Routledge, 2004. Corbett, John. Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage...