Sex Sounds - Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music - Grand Format

In Sex Sounds, Danielle Shlomit Sofer investigates the repeated focus on sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s. Debunking electronic music's origin myth - that it emerged in France and Germany, invented by Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, respectively - Sofer 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 studies - examining music that ranges from Schaeffer's musique concrète to a video workshop by Annie Sprinkle - Sofer offers a groundbreaking look at the social and cultural impact sex has had on audible creative practices.