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Sex Sounds: Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music
An investigation of sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s, with detailed case studies of electrosexual music by a wide range of creators. In Sex Sounds, Danielle Shlomit Sofer investigates the repeated focus on sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s. Debunking electronic musics origin myththat it emerged in France and Germany, invented by Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, respectivelySofer defines electronic music more inclusively to mean any music with an electronic component, drawing connections between academic institutions, radio studios, experimental music practice, hip-hop production, and histories of independent and commercial popular music. Through a broad array of detailed case studiesexamining music that ranges from Schaeffers Read more