Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

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, Roshana...