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Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

By: Roshanak Kheshti

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Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

By: Roshanak Kheshti

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.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501320289

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9781501320286

Modernity's Ear

Listening to Race and Gender in World Music

By: Roshanak Kheshti

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Modernity's Ear

Listening to Race and Gender in World Music

By: Roshanak Kheshti

Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early “songcatchers” were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the ‘other’ that made them. In Modernity’s Ear, Roshanak Kheshti examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry through the promotion of an economy of desire. Taking a mixed-methods approach that draws on anthropology and sound studies, Kheshti locates sound as both representative and constitutive of culture and power. Through analyses of film, photography, recordings, and radio, as well as ethnographic fieldwork at a San Francisco-based world music company, Kheshti politicizes the feminine in the contemporary world music industry. Deploying critical theory to read the fantasy of the feminized listener and feminized organ of the ear, Modernity’s Ear ultimately explores the importance of pleasure in constituting the listening self.

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199

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NYU Press

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1479817864

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9781479817863

Democracy and Ethnography

Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States

By: Carol J. Greenhouse,Roshanak Kheshti

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Democracy and Ethnography

Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States

By: Carol J. Greenhouse,Roshanak Kheshti

Examines the contemporary connections between liberal democracy and ethnography through the development of national case studies on the United States and Spain.

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320

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SUNY Press

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079143964X

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9780791439647

Modernity's Ear

Listening to Race and Gender in World Music

By: Roshanak Kheshti

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Modernity's Ear

Listening to Race and Gender in World Music

By: Roshanak Kheshti

Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the 'other' that made them. In Modernity's Ear, Roshanak Kheshti examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry through the promotion of an economy of desire. Taking a mixed-methods approach that draws on anthropology and sound studies, Kheshti locates sound as both representative and constitutive of culture and power. Through analyses of film, photography, recordings, and radio, as well as ethnographic fieldwork at a San Francisco-based world music company, Kheshti politicizes the feminine in the contemporary world music industry. Deploying critical theory to read the fantasy of the feminized listener and feminized organ of the ear, Modernity's Ear ultimately explores the importance of pleasure in constituting the listening self.

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147986112X

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9781479861125

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Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

Modernity's Ear

Modernity's Ear

Democracy and Ethnography

Democracy and Ethnography

Modernity's Ear

Modernity's Ear

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