Roshanak Kheshti Boeken

Exploring the intersection of liberal democracy and ethnography, this collection of essays analyzes modern democratic environments like courts and classrooms through various scholarly lenses. It highlights a critical contradiction in how identities are constructed and recognized, revealing the challenges liberal states face in addressing cultural diversity. The book examines the distinct yet intertwined approaches to identity in the U.S. and Spain, offering insights into the roles of ethnographic disciplines in shaping these narratives and their implications for democratic change.

Examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry.

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.