Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

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Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach is written by Roshanak Kheshti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501320289 (ISBN 10) and 9781501320286 (ISBN 13).

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.