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Preface
I INTRODUCTION, CONVERSTION, CHRONOLOGY
Introduction Richard Kostelanetz
Conversation with John Cage Richard Kostelanetz
Chronological Table of John Cage´s Life Ellsworth J. Snyder
II 1927-39
Other People Think John Cage
Our Distinguished Dropout Richar Barnes
The Future of Music: Credo John Cage
III 1940-49
People Call It Noise- but He Calls It Music Pence James
Chavez and the Chicago Drouth John Cage
For More New Sounds John Cage
South Winds in Chicago John Cage
Summer Music: The Parks John Cage
Expressiver Percussion Virgil Thomson
The Dreams and Dedications of George Antheil John Cage
[Sonatas and Interludes] John Cage
[Memoir] John Cage
Defense of Satie John Cage
[Cage's Studio Home] from Junio Harper´s Bazaar
Satie Controversy John Cage, with a reply by Abraham Skulsky
More Satie John Cage
Current Chronicle Henry Cowell
Inteferential Art Richard Kostelanetz
[Robert Rauschenberg] John Cage
V 1955-59
On Film John Cage
[Letter to Paul Henry Lang] John Cage
[The New School] John Cage
[Two Short Poems] John Cage's Class
[On Cage's Classes] Al Hansen, Dick Higgins
Morris Graves John Cage
Art Review: Cage, Composer, Shows Calligraphy of Note Dore Ashton
[On Earlier Pieces] John Cage
VI 1960-65
Form Is a Language John Cage
Ladies of the Monday Club and Gentlemen of the Faculty John Cage
List N° 2 John Cage
"Live" Electronic Music Richard Teitelbaum
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music Edward Downes
[Cartidge Music] John Cage
There Is No Silence Now Jill Johnston
[Poem for Edwin Denby] John Cage
[The Arts in Dialogue] John Cage
[Review of Variations IV] Eric Salzman
New York Mycological Society John Cage
A Second Fame: Good Food Ninette Lyon
VII 1966-70
A Lethal Measurement Michael Zwerin
Cagean Poetry Richard Kostelanetz
McLuhan's Influence John Cage
Re Musicircus John Cage
Environmental Abundance Richard Kostelanetz
These Days John Cage
[Cunningham Stories] John Cage
[European Influences] Daniel Charles, Eric Salzman
[Not Wanting To Say ...] Barbara Rose
VIII SOME RANDOM REMARKS
John Cage: Some Random Remarks Richard Kostelanetz
IX DATA
Cage´s Writings
Cage's Compositions (to 1990)
Cage's Visual Art
Recordings
Index