Wendy Carlos - A Biography

Drawing on published and unpublished interviews with Wendy Carlos and with other people in her life and career, this full biography tells the story of Carlos' life from her childhood in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to her present life in New York and the secrecy that has surrounded it.

List of contents

• Dedication


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction. The Phenomenon of Wendy Carlos


• Chapter 1. Origins (1939-1962)


• Chapter 2. Foundations (1962-67)


• Chapter 3. Switched-On Bach and Undesired Fame (1968-69)


• Chapter 4. Something Went Wrong (1970-1978)


• Chapter 5. "Welcome Back, Wendy!" The Playboy Interview (1979)


• Chapter 6. Transformations (1979-1984)


• Chapter 7. The Last of the New (1985-1997)


• Chapter 8. Reissuing the Past (1998-2005)


• Chapter 9. Preserving, Protecting, and Defending Her Legacy (2006-Present)


• Glossary


• Bibliography

About the author

Amanda Sewell is Music Director of Interlochen Public Radio. She holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Indiana University.

Summary

Drawing on published and unpublished interviews with Wendy Carlos and with other people in her life and career, this full biography tells the story of Carlos' life from her childhood in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to her present life in New York and the secrecy that has surrounded it.

Additional text

[Sewell] contextualizes the historical and technological details of Carlos's music with the accessible clarity of a gifted public musicologist and radio host ... Wendy Carlos: A Biography starts an important conversation about a composer who is often relegated to the peripheries of twentieth-century music.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Sewell, Amanda (Instructor Sewell, Sewell Amanda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780190053468
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005346-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cultural Biographies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Biography: arts & entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Biography: arts and entertainment, Electronic Music