Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Tracing the development of the Moog synthesizer from its initial conception to its ascension to stardom in 'Switched-on Bach', this text conveys the consequences of a technology that would provide the soundtrack for a chapter in cultural history.

Moog synthesizer. --- Synthesizer (Musical instrument) --- Music synthesizer --- Musical synthesizer --- Sound synthesizer --- Synth (Musical instrument) --- Synthesiser (Musical instrument) --- Electronic musical instruments

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"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."--Publisher's website.

Gender identity in music. --- Electronic music --- Synthesizer music --- Moog synthesizer. --- History and criticism. --- Carlos, Wendy --- Carlos, Wendy. --- Criticism and interpretation.