Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music

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 its development up to the present and beyond. Taking cues from radical intellectuals like Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Guy Debord, industrial musicians sought to dismantle deep cultural assumptions so thoroughly normalized by media, government, and religion as to seem invisible. Assimilate is the first serious study published on industrial music. Through incisive discussions of musicians, audiences, marketers, cities, and songs, this book traces industrial values, methods, and goals across forty years of technological, political, and artistic change. A scholarly musicologist and a longtime industrial musician, S. Alexander Reed provides deep insight not only into the genre's history but also into its ambiguous relationship with symbols of totalitarianism and evil. Voicing frank criticism and affection alike, this book reveals the challenging and sometimes inspiring ways that industrial music both responds to and shapes the world.

Details

Subjects

Music

Type

Book

Place of publication

Oxford

Year

2013

Number of pages

362 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780199832606

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

780 Ree

Volumes

1

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