...As John Cage and the academic serialists pursued their apparently contradictory aesthetics on the East Coast, another compositional wave was taking shape on the edge of the Pacific. Known as minimalism, it was led by La Monte Young, the only composer in the history of Western music who has so...

...Many people in America or even the world probably know who John Cage is, but only a few may have actually heard his music. Cage understood how technology altered Western musical culture, yet rejected the basic premises of most Western music early. His interest in composition led him first to Henry...

...This chapter examines Richard Wagner's ideas in the context of American composer John Cage's work. It suggests that it is through Cage's aesthetic of silence that the other arts can be a part of the discourse of music, and that it does not sublimate the other arts nor provide them with a notion...