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Assimilate : a Critical History of Industrial Music.

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 h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, S. Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.