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9780190268305
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Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups who combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and style of punk rock. In its early days, bands such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire produced a genuinely radical form of music bent on recontextualizing the signs and methods of cultural authority in an attempt to liberate listeners from the trappings of modernity. But, as industrial music took on more and more elements of popular music over the course of the 1980s it slowly abandoned its mission. By the mid-1990s, it was seen as simply another style of pop music, and had ironically fallen into the trappings it sought by its very existence to destroy. In "Assimilate", S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre tracing industrial music's trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's founding of the record label Industrial Music in 1976, to its peak in popularity on the back of the band Nine Inch Nails in the mid-1990s, and through its decline to the present day. Through a series of revealing explorations of works spanning the entirety of industrial music's past, and drawing on extensive interviews with musicians, record label owners, DJs, and concert promoters, Reed paints a thorough historical picture that includes not only the bands, but the structures that supported them, and the scenes they created. In so doing, he reveals an engaging story of an ideological disintegration and its aftermath. The definitive text on the genre, "Assimilate" is essential reading for fans of industrial music, and scholars and students of popular music alike.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction: The Front Lines""; ""PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRECONDITIONS OF INDUSTRIAL MUSIC""; ""Chapter 1 Italian Futurism""; ""Chapter 2 William S. Burroughs""; ""Chapter 3 Industrial Music and Art Music""; ""PART II: INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY""; ""Chapter 4 Northern England""; ""Chapter 5 Berlin""; ""Chapter 6 San Francisco""; ""Chapter 7 Mail Art, Tape Technology, and the Network""; ""PART III: INDUSTRIAL MUSICAL STYLE""; ""Chapter 8 The Tyranny of the Beat: Dance Music and Identity Crisis""
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""Chapter 9 "After Cease to Exist": England 1981-1985""""Chapter 10 Body to Body: Belgian EBM 1981-1985""; ""Chapter 11 Industrial Music as a Theater of Cruelty""; ""Chapter 12 "She's a Sleeping Beast": Skinny Puppy and the Feminine Gothic""; ""PART IV: INDUSTRIAL POLITICS""; ""Chapter 13 Back and Forth: Industrial Music and Fascism""; ""Chapter 14 White Souls in Black Suits: Industrial Music and Race""; ""PART V: PEOPLE AND INDUSTRIAL MUSIC""; ""Chapter 15 Wild Planet: WaxTrax! Records and Global Dance Scenes""; ""Chapter 16 Q: Why Do We Act Like Machines? A: We Do Not.""
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""Chapter 17 Death""""Chapter 18 Wonder""; ""Suture: From the Author's Diary""; ""Postscript: Is There Any Escape for Noise?""; ""Sources Cited""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199832606
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199832583
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Industrial Rock
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