Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach
ISBN-10
1501320300
ISBN-13
9781501320309
Category
Music
Pages
119
Language
English
Published
2019-10-31
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
Roshanak Kheshti

Description

So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold War and Carlos's gender to this critically important innovation. Through a postcolonial lens of feminist science and technology studies, Roshanak Kheshti engages in a reading of Carlos's music within this gendered context. By focusing on Switched-On Bach (the highest selling classical music recording of all time), this book explores the significance of gender to the album's--and, as a result, the Moog synthesizer's--phenomenal success.

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