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"4'33" by John Cage (Twenty Thousand Hertz)

Strong Songs

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Music Corporation - The Music Corporation

The music corporation was founded 19 34. It really took off during world war too. And musicians of that generation were horrified by it, as were lots of other people. John cage became obsessed with the idea of silence. He worried that musac would stop people from being able to hear silence. If you get a silent piece on musac, people get to not listen to anything for four and a half minutes.

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