Switched-on Bach

Submitted by Joseph Hafner on 4 February, 2021 - 19:18

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Kheshti, Roshanak,

Source:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic,, Volume v. 141., United States, p.vii, 109 pages : (2019)

Call Number:

ML410.C32695

Keywords:

Electronic music, Gender identity in music., History and criticism., Moog synthesizer., Synthesizer music

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references."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.