Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

by Roshanak Kheshti

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501320289
• ISBN13: 9781501320286
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 6.5"