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13 - Case Studies of Women in Electronic Music: The Early Pioneers

from Part III - Women and Music Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Louis Niebur
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Summary

Louis Niebur’s chapter 13, ‘Case Studies of Women in Electronic Music: The Early Pioneers’, considers a range of the earliest ground-breaking women working with electronic music, including Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire, at the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in the UK, and Wendy Carlos, Pauline Oliveros, and Suzanne Ciani, in the US.

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electroacousticelectronic music pioneersBBC Radiophonic WorkshopSan Francisco Tape Music CenterDaphne OramDelia DerbyshireWendy CarlosPauline OliverosSuzanne Ciani
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 199 - 212
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Niebur, Louis. Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oliveros, Pauline. Software for People: Collected Writings 1963–1980 (Baltimore, MD: Smith Publications, 1984).Google Scholar
Sewell, Amanda. Wendy Carlos: A Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).Google Scholar

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