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Authors :
Zeiher, Cindy; Grimshaw, Mike; Music can be such a revelation’, sang Madonna in the eighties. She is not wrong. While this issue contemplates such revelations, it does at the same time puts this claim to work – what can music, if anything, reveal to us, about us and about the world we inhabit? Moreover, is the function of music to reveal anything at all? If we are to take the work of Cage seriously, we could say that music reveals nothing in particular, and yet it still fully engages our senses all of the time. Certainly, Cage is the forerunner as prioritising sound as musical sensibility, one which he says, we should not really have a desire to traverse but rather fully interpellated ourselves within. Considering his claim, Cage still went against the grain and resisted falling into the sometimes too easy ‘music is good for something/nothing’ dialectic which tends to contour musical taste and sensibilities. And by no means was he a relativist. Rather, Cage’s oeuvre of compositional work constantly and unrepentantly asks, what makes music, music ? There are many before and in the wake of Cage who ask similarly.
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Authors :
American Philosophical Society Annual Meeting (2007); Time for Three (speaker); Time for Three (Musical group) (speaker)
Subjects: Music; Performance; Dunn
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