Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach (33 1/3)

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.

Author: Roshanak Kheshti

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date: October 31, 2019

Number of Pages: 118 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1501320289

ISBN-13: 9781501320286