Information and web resources for research on John Cage

(last update: 23/9/2007)


Table of contents

1. Why this page?  |  2. Where to look for things  |  3. Contacts/Archives  |   4. "Tools"


2. Where to look for things


Good starting points:
  • Silence-list ("Cage-list")

    Archive since December 2002

  • Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage, New York (Limelight Editions) 1987; no index in the book, but Larry Solomon compiled one: see
    http://solomonsmusic.net/CageInde.htm [The reprint of 2003 (published with Routledge) includes Solomon's index.]

  • James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage, Cambridge (CUP) 1993.
  • David Nicholls (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to John Cage, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 2003
    Read a review of this book (by Danae Stefanou).
  • review by Kenneth Goldsmith



Useful Web-Indices and catalogues

List of Cage's works maintained by


Other :-)
last update: 23 September 2007
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