John Cage and the Avant-Garde
Selected Bibliography
Bernstein, David W. and Hatch, Christopher, eds. Here Comes
Everybody: The Music, Poetry, and Art of John Cage. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
Bürger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Cage, John. Silence. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University
Press, 1961.
________. A Year from Monday. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1967.
________. M, Writings '67-72. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University
Press, 1973.
________. For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel
Charles. Boston: Marion Boyars, 1981.
________. Empty Words. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University
Press, 1979.
________. X, Writings `79-'82. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University
Press, 1983.
________. I-VI. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1990.
________. Composition in Retrospect. Cambridge, MA: Exact
Change, 1993.
Cage, John and Feldman, Morton. Radio Happenings I-V, 1966-1967.
Cologne, MusikTexte, 1993.
Cardew, Cornelius. Stockhausen Serves Imperialism. London:
Latimer New Dimensions Limited, 1974.
Culver, Andrew. "Notes on Anarchy and Economy." Musicworks
62 (Spring, 1995): 24-27; 64 (Spring 1996): 24-25; 68 (Summer
1997): 30-35.
Curran, Alvin. "Himmel und Hölle: Die neue allgemeine
Praxis." MusikTexte 53 (March 1994): 35-38.
Egbert, Donald D. Social Radicalism in the Arts. New York:
Knopf, 1970.
Enzenberger, Hans Magnus. "Die Aporien der Avant-Garde,"
Einzelheiten Poesie und Politik. Frankfurt am Main, 1962.
Fetterman, William. John Cage's Theatre Pieces. Australia:
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.
Fleming, Richard and Duckworth, William, eds. John Cage at
Seventy-Five. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1989.
Flynt, Henry. "Mutations of the Vanguard: Pre-Fluxus, During
Fluxus, Late Fluxus." Ubi Fluxus ibi motus, ed.,
A. Bonio Oliva. Milan: Mazzotta, 1990.
Gena, Peter and Brent, Jonathan, eds. A John Cage Reader.
New York: C.F. Peters, 1982.
Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Dover
Publications, Inc, 1969 (1917).
Guilbaut, Serge. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art,
trans., Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1983.
Holzaepfel, John. "David Tudor and the Performance of American
Music." Ph. D. diss., City University of New York, 1994.
Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass
Culture, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1986.
Richard Kostelanetz, ed. John Cage: Writer. New York:
Limelight Editions, 1993.
________________. John Cage: An Anthology. New York: Da
Capo, 1991.
________________. Writings about John Cage. Ann Arrbor,
MI: The University Press of Michigan, 1996.
________________. The Avant-Grade Tradition in Literature.
Buffalo: Prometheus, 1982.
Kuhn, Laura. "Synergetic Dynamics in John Cage's Europeras
1 & 2." Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 131-48.
__________. "John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2: The
Musical Means of Revolution," Ph. D. diss., University of
California, Los Angeles, 1992.
Leonard, George J. Into the Light of Things: The Art
of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Lewis, Helena. The Politics of Surrealism. New York: Paragon,
1988.
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, ed. The Boulez-Cage Correspondence,
trans. and ed., Robert Samuels. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993.
Patterson, David W. "Appraising the Catchwords, c. 1942-1959:
John Cage's Asian-Derived Rhetoric and the Historical Reference
of Black Mountain College." Ph. D. diss., Columbia University,
1996.
Perloff, Marjorie. Radical Artifice. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1991.
Perloff, Marjorie, and Junkerman, Charles, eds. John Cage:
Composed in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1994.
Poggioli, Renato. The Theory of the Avant-Garde. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Pritchett, James. "The Development of Chance Techniques
in the Music of John Cage, 1950-1956." Ph. D. diss., New
York University, 1988.
_____________. The Music of John Cage. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1993.
Retallack, Joan. Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, and Music.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996.
Shultis, Christopher. Silencing the Sounding Self: John Cage
and the American Experimental Tradition. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1998.
Van Emmerik, Paul. "Thema's en Variaties: Systematische
Tendensen in de Compositietechnieken van John Cage." Ph.
D. diss., Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1996.
