Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

Roshanak Kheshti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2028-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Switched-On Prologue
1 Original Synth
2 Switching On
3 Switched-On Studio
4 Switched-On World
Epilogue: Cats on Keys & Total Eclipses
Acknowledgements
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 164 mm
Gewicht	107 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-2028-9 / 1501320289
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-2028-6 / 9781501320286
Zustand	Neuware