{"id":5482,"date":"2010-12-14T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:31:29","slug":"cages-433-the-uk-pop-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/cages-433-the-uk-pop-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cage’s 4’33 & the UK Pop Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out Greg Sandow’s blog on this. Opening paras below. Full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cage Against the Machine<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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“Support is building like a tidal wave,” says<\/a> the Daily Telegraph<\/em> in Britain, about a wonderful, unlikely, but conceivably successful project — to push a recording of John Cage’s 4’33”<\/em> (his famous silent piece) to the top of the British pop chart.<\/p>\n

This is a protest action, a way of resisting what many in the UK feel is manipulation of the pop charts by Simon Cowell. Read all about it here<\/a>, in a BBC News story. Last year, to keep Cowell from getting his hand-picked song to No. 1, a group of pop music people started a movement — which succeeded! — to get a song by Rage Against the Machine to the top instead. Building on that success, they now want to put John Cage on top.<\/div>\n
Which is just a wonderful idea. And, according to the Daily Telegraph<\/em>, the British online betting site Ladbroke’s puts the odds against the plan succeeding at only 5 to 1.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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