[silence] Aesthetic Cages

[Russell Goodwin]

Dear Silencers,

I was wondering if anybody is familiar with studies of Cage's music (and his ideas about music) from the perspective of aesthics (in the modern, Western tradition). 
Much of the Cage scholarship I've encountered seems to re-state Cage's intentions (of non-intentionality) as an explanation of his aesthetic position. While I don't have a problem with this approach, I'm looking for articles, book chapters or monographs that try to place Cage's work within aesthetic categories, like those categories attributed to Leonard Meyer (Formalists, Absolutist Expressionist, Referential Expressionist), as well as categories by other aestheticians of music. The work of Alastair Williams, in his contribution to the Cambridge Companion to John Cage as well as his own book 'New Music and the Claims of Modernity', is the sort of approach I am looking for.

I am exploring aesthetics with the intention of using Cage's music, not so much to re-define established aesthetic categories but rather, to re-evaluate how such categories are drawn.

Cheers

Russell Goodwin   

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