John Cage’s spectrum politics

his musical work through Jacques Derrida

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Keywords:

John Cage’s political work, Specter, American natives, Justice, Deconstruction

Abstract

In a philosophical approach to the work of North-American composer John Cage, we use Derridean’s notions of ghost and spectrum for understanding his conception of sound and revealing the political status of his art. This condition is absolutely linked to a desire for justice that emerges in the roots of an America devastated by European dominance. Its manifestation in Cage’s work is the intervention and the disarmament of Western music. Thus, artwork for John Cage is always rooted in a political work which horizon is justice. A horizon that Jacques Derrida puts as a basic condition for all doing.

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Author Biography

Gustavo Celedón Bórquez, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Gustavo Celedón is a researcher in Aesthetics at the Universidad de Valparaíso. He is a professor at the School of Cinema and a member of the faculty of the Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies on Thought, Culture and Society of the same University. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Université Paris VIII -Vincennes-Saint-Denis and is a member of the scientific council of the Laboratoire des Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie (LLCP) belonging to the same university.

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2015-11-10

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Bórquez, Gustavo Celedón. 2015. “John Cage’s Spectrum Politics : His Musical Work through Jacques Derrida”. Per Musi, no. 32 (November):1-23. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/38414.

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No. 32 (2015): General Topics

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