Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond

“The best books about art movements become more than just descriptions: they become part of what they set out to describe. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond is such a book. It sought to identify and give coherence to a whole body of musical work that fell outside both the classical tradition and the avant-garde orthodoxies that had proceeded from it. Its appearance in 1974 consolidated a community of interests, a feeling that music should be something more than that which could be contained in concert halls or on records, that it must somehow extend itself into our lives.” (Brian Eno) The book was translated into Slovak by Peter Zagar.