Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xv Introduction to the New Edition xxv Part One MUSIC Dualism/Unity/Control: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Ives 9 Nondualism and Coexistence: Henry David Thoreau and John Cage 29 Part Two POETRY AND MUSIC The Transparent Eye/I: Positioning the Self in Pound-Tradition Poetics 61 Silencing the Sounded Self: The Poetry and Music of John Cage 85 Notes 127 Works Cited 161 Index 171 ...