Assimilate : a critical history of industrial music /
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.
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, [2013] |
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Table of 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
- 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.
- Chapter 17. Death
- Chapter 18. Wonder
- Suture: From the Author's Diary
- Postscript: Is There Any Escape for Noise?
- Sources Cited
- Notes
- Index