'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford

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dc.citation.firstpage254
dc.citation.journalTitleOsiris
dc.citation.lastpage277
dc.citation.volumeNumber28
dc.contributor.authorMody, Cyrus C.M.
dc.contributor.authorNelson, Andrew J.
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-19T21:33:29Z
dc.date.available2013-09-19T21:33:29Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractStanford, more than most American universities, transformed in the early Cold War into a research powerhouse tied to national security priorities. The budgetary and legitimacy crises that beset the military- industrial- academic research complex in the 1960s thus struck Stanford so deeply that many feared the university itself might not survive. We argue that these crises facilitated the rise of a new kind of interdisciplinarity at Stanford, as evidenced in particular by the founding of the university’s computer music center. Focusing on the “multivocal technology” of computer music, we investigate the relationships between Stanford’s broader institutional environment and the interactions among musicians, engineers, administrators, activists, and funders in order to explain the emergence of one of the most creative and profi table loci for Stanford’s contributions to industry and the arts.
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dc.identifier.citationMody, Cyrus C.M. and Nelson, Andrew J.. "'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford." <i>Osiris,</i> 28, (2013) University of Chicago Press: 254-277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/671380.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1086/671380
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/72103
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
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dc.subject.keywordhistory of science
dc.title'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford
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