About the Book

Silence, John Cage's first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching. Fifty years later comes a beautiful new edition with a foreword by eminent music critic Kyle Gann. A landmark book in American arts and culture, Silence has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over half a million copies worldwide. Wesleyan University Press is proud to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication with this special hardcover edition.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 312 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Wesleyan

Edition: 2

ISBN-10: 0819571768

Publication Date: Oct. 26th, 2011

ISBN-13: 9780819571762

Dimensions: 7.33 x 8.56 x 1.06 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.54 lbs

• Categories: General Art General Literary Criticism General Music