This course examines the relationship between gender, technology, and musical practice. We will consider music technologies from throughout history, questioning whether these technologies are just tools or if they hold ethical values that connect to other aspects of cultural identity, specifically gender, race, and sexuality. We will make connections between musical technologies and bodily technologies by reading some classic texts of feminist and queer discourse, using the ideas we encounter to question the ways in which identities are shaped, expressed and resisted. For example, how does the player piano hide the labor of the amateur pianist? How does the microphone make the voice sound both closer and farther away? Course material spans classical and popular music studies as well as queer studies, Black studies, Marxist feminism, and sound studies. Students will participate in seminar discussion and listen to a wide variety of recordings; other requirements will include a research paper or creative project, a book report, and short written responses. We will also gain hands-on experience programming with the visual programming language Pure Data.