A Chorus of Voices
A Chorus of Voices
Seeing Music in Cage and Fluxus, the Birth of the Postmodern
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 of purity derived from the example of music.
Keywords: Gesamtkunstwerk, Richard Wagner, John Cage, aesthetic of silence, discourse of music, notion of purity
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