{"id":5439,"date":"2011-02-24T23:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2011-02-27T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T22:30:37","slug":"on-february-24th-2011-musicage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/24\/on-february-24th-2011-musicage\/","title":{"rendered":"On February 24th, 2011, MUSICAGE…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Musicage: Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…the 1996 book by Joan Retallack (subtitled ‘Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music<\/em><\/a>‘) features fantastic reflections on, interviews with, and poetry by this humane, earthy, soulful, rigorous, funny, free-spirited, creative colossus of the 20th century who has always seemed like one of the critical figures for me to get my head around, but the closer I approach, the more elusive he seems – though this book, which I just started today (recently embarking on a reading binge which is firing me up for something), is making me feel a revelatory connection – and worth the ‘price of admission’ was this quote – his response when asked at a 1988-89 Harvard seminar whether he thought his music had political content “…The performance of music is a public occasion or a social occasion. This brings it about that the performance of a piece of music can be a metaphor of society, of how we want society to be. Though we are not now living in a society which we consider good, we could make a piece of music in which we would be willing to live. I don’t mean that literally, I mean it metaphorically. You can think of the piece of music as a representation of a society in which you would be willing to live.”<\/em> – yes (and parenthetically it just so happens that my evening was punctuated by a fantastic performance by Academy music fellow, Huck Hodge<\/a>, with whom I have had a few Cage conversations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the 1996 book by Joan Retallack (subtitled ‘Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music‘) features fantastic reflections on, interviews with, and poetry by this humane, earthy, soulful,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,10],"tags":[1734,811,813,812,1721],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music","tag-books","tag-huck-hodge","tag-joan-retallack","tag-john-cage","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}