A Towering Virtue of Necessity
Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cyrus C M Mody (0000-0002-5266-5878, Rice University), Andrew J Nelson (0000-0001-7838-1198) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 254-277 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/671380 |
| OpenAlex | W1992982563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
Stanford, 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 profitable loci for Stanford''s contributions to industry and the arts
Cold war · Economic history · Economics · Legitimacy · Media studies · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Art, Technology, and Culture · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · History of Computing Technologies · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |