The Author: Jannika Bock holds a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (Germany). She studied American Literature and Culture as well as Musicology, spending several semesters at North American universities, including Harvard University, Smith College, Cornell University and Naropa University.

• Contents: Cage’s Thoreau – Thoreau in Cage’s Texts – Cage’s References to Thoreau’s Texts – Concord in Massachusetts: Thoreau’s Transcendentalism – Thoreau’s Aesthetics – Discord in the World: Musical Matters in Cage’s Texts – Defining Music, Silence & the Demilitarization of Language – Compositional Concepts in Cage’s Texts – Process, Presence & Dynamic Passivity – Cage and Thoreau: Two Wanderers.

The Author: Jannika Bock holds a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (Germany). She studied American Literature and Culture as well as Musicology, spending several semesters at North American universities, including Harvard University, Smith College, Cornell University and Naropa University.

• Contents: Cage’s Thoreau – Thoreau in Cage’s Texts – Cage’s References to Thoreau’s Texts – Concord in Massachusetts: Thoreau’s Transcendentalism – Thoreau’s Aesthetics – Discord in the World: Musical Matters in Cage’s Texts – Defining Music, Silence & the Demilitarization of Language – Compositional Concepts in Cage’s Texts – Process, Presence & Dynamic Passivity – Cage and Thoreau: Two Wanderers.

The Author: Jannika Bock holds a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (Germany). She studied American Literature and Culture as well as Musicology, spending several semesters at North American universities, including Harvard University, Smith College, Cornell University and Naropa University.

• Contents: Cage’s Thoreau – Thoreau in Cage’s Texts – Cage’s References to Thoreau’s Texts – Concord in Massachusetts: Thoreau’s Transcendentalism – Thoreau’s Aesthetics – Discord in the World: Musical Matters in Cage’s Texts – Defining Music, Silence & the Demilitarization of Language – Compositional Concepts in Cage’s Texts – Process, Presence & Dynamic Passivity – Cage and Thoreau: Two Wanderers.