Author : Roshanak Kheshti
Release : 2019-10-31
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 300/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach by : Roshanak Kheshti
Download or read book Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach written by Roshanak Kheshti. This book was released on 2019-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.