Books by John Cage
Interviews where books by John Cage were recommended
The best books on Minimalism, recommended by Kyle Chayka
In times of political or personal turmoil, there’s a tendency to seek solace in stripping back life to its bare essentials. Minimalist thought is threaded through Stoicism and Zen Buddhism; absence and space became major preoccupations of 1960s US art. Kyle Chayka, the art critic and author of The Longing for Less, recommends five books on the philosophy that underpins the present fad for minimalist self-help.
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The Infinite Variety of Music
by Leonard Bernstein -
2
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
by Friedrich Nietzsche -
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods -
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Silence
by John Cage -
5
Music in a New Found Land
by Wilfrid Mellers
Alex Ross recommends the best Writing about Music
Alex Ross recommends the best Writing about Music
New Yorker music critic, Alex Ross, explains why writing about music is, really, nothing like “dancing about architecture.”
