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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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| Summary |
Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's founding of the record label Industrial Music in 1976, to its peak in popularity with the success of Nine Inch Nails in the mid-1990s, through its decline to the present day. Exploring twenty exemplary w. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331), and index. |
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I. Technology and the preconditions of industrial music. -- Italian futurism -- William S. Burroughs -- Industrial music and art music -- II. Industrial geography. -- Northern England -- Berlin -- San Francisco -- Mail art, tape technology, and the network -- III. Industrial musical style. -- The tyranny of the beat : dance music and identity crisis -- "After cease to exist" : England 1981-1985 -- Body to body : Belgian EBM 1981-1985 -- Industrial music as a theater of cruelty -- "She's a sleeping beast" : Skinny Puppy and the feminine gothic -- IV. Industrial politics. -- Back and forth : industrial music and fascism -- White souls in black suits : industrial music and race -- V. People and industrial music. -- Wild planet : WaxTrax! Records and global dance scenes -- Q: Why do we act like machines? A: We do not. -- Death -- Wonder -- Suture : from the author's diary -- Postscript. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial music -- History and criticism.
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Industrial music. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reed, S. Alexander. Assimilate : A Critical History of Industrial Music. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2013 9780199832606 |
| ISBN |
9780199339624 (electronic book) |
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0199339627 (electronic book) |
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9780199832590 |
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0199832595 |
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9780199832583 |
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0199832587 |
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9780199832606 |
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0199832609 |
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40022473606 |
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