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Originally Posted by Glice
Cage saw Branca as a fascist, in line with Wagner. This isn't to do with Wagner or Branca's political beliefs, but to do with the desire to hyper-organise the concert situation to the submission of the audience. Cage lived through the time when 'there can be no poetry after auschwitz' embodies precisely why Cage hates Wagner. The individual enforcing their will upon society was the artistic anathema
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I had absolutely no idea that Cage felt like that about Branca but it sort of articulates my own reluctance to embrace Branca's music, which I too think has no place within an avant-garde that, as you say, after the War regarded his kind of enforcement of individual will as 'anathema'. I don't use the word 'fascist' for the sake of it, but in the case of Branca it makes absolute sense, at least within the context of how Cage was using it.