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Taking chances
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October 1, 2008
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Taking chances John Cage David Nicholls University of Illinois Press (Urbana & Chicago, 2007); 144pp; $35. ISBN 978 0 252 0321 8.
NEW READERS begin here. This brief volume is the perfect introduction to the life and work of John Cage. In just 113 pages of main text, David Nicholls manages to give a sense of the personal and social forces that shaped Cage's life and to describe much of the music which represents Cage's greatest achievements as a composer; at the same time he successfully locates both these narratives within the development of Cage scholarship, particularly that of the last 15 years. Modestly, Nicholls explains his purpose: 'to present John Cage and his work from a ...
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