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Cage, Nono and 1960s Hauntology
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75 pages
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31 July 2025
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Cage, Nono, and the Ghosts of the 1960s: A Hauntological Exploration
‘What does it mean to follow a ghost?’ Jacques Derrida posed this question in Specters of Marx (1993), introducing ‘hauntology’ and the ‘medium of the media’ through Shakespeare’s notion of time being ‘out of joint’. Analogue media, filled with ghostly sounds, played a key role in experimental music, especially in the 1960s. Composers like John Cage and Luigi Nono used records and tape in their work. This explorati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009487955 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009487957 |
| Series: | Elements in Music since 1945 |
| Author: | Clare Lesser |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 75 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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