Switched-On Bach
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"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."--Publisher's website.
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33 1/3
v. 141.
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: vii, 109 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781501320286
1501320289
SUBJECTS
Carlos, Wendy -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750.
Gender identity in music.
Electronic music -- History and criticism.
Synthesizer music -- History and criticism.
Moog synthesizer.