Assimilate
Subtitle: a critical history of industrial music
By: S. Alexander Reed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780199832583; 9780199832606
Subjects: Industrial music; History and criticism
Other titles: Critical history of industrial music
Description: More extreme than punk, industrial music revolted against the very ideas of order and reason. This book traces industrial music's attitudes and practices from their earliest articulations-a hundred years ago-through the genre's mid-1970s formation and beyond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The front lines; title: Technology and the preconditions of industrial music. Italian Futurism ; William S. Burroughs ; Industrial music and art music; title: Industrial geography. Northern England ; Berlin ; San Francisco ; Mail art, tape technology, and the network; title: 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; title: Industrial politics. Back and forth : industrial music and fascism ; White souls in black suits : industrial music and race; title: 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; title: Suture : from the author's diary; title: Postscript. Is there any escape for noise?