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.
| ISBN: | 9781501320286 |
| Publication date: | 31st October 2019 |
| Author: | Roshanak Kheshti |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 120 pages |
| Series: | 33 1/3 |
| Genres: |
Music reviews and criticism Electronic music Theory of music and musicology |
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.
Switched-on Bach features in the following genres: Music reviews and criticism, Electronic music, Theory of music and musicology
Switched-on Bach is available in Paperback
Switched-on Bach was written by Roshanak Kheshti and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Switched-on Bach has 120 pages
Yes it is part of 33 1/3 series
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