Cambridge University Press, paperback, 2000. XV, 390 pages. A bit dog eared and light edgewear, but no markings and overall a very good copy. 1. ed. From the Music in the Twentieth Century series.
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…