Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach

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While many books and scholarly works have been written on Bob Moog, his synthesizer, and the musician who made it famous, Wendy Carlos, this book takes another look at the conditions that informed the work. Roshanak Kheshti focuses on the importance of Cold War spy technology as an influence on the technology of the synthesizer and the conditions that helped shape the highest selling classical album of all time, Switched On Bach. Through a postcolonial lens of feminist science and technology studies, Roshanak Kheshti also exaimes the influence that Wendy Carlos' gender had on the album and as an extention, the success of the Moog synthisizer.

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• Author: Roshanak Kheshti
• Pages: 118