The father of industrial music biography
The father of industrial music biography
Electronic industrial music.
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music is a 2013 book by S. Alexander Reed, published by Oxford University Press,[1] and bills itself as "the first serious study published on industrial music."
Synopsis
The book is an attempt to chart the history of industrial music as a genre from its early influences (including art music, Italian Futurism, Situationism, and the works of Antonin Artaud and William S.
Burroughs) to the present day (including its connections to political radicalism, the gothic subculture, and dance music).
The book is divided into five parts:
- Technology and the Preconditions of Industrial Music
- Industrial Geography
- Industrial Musical Style
- Industrial Politics
- People and Industrial Music
The foreword is written by Stephen Mallinder of first-wave industrial act Cabaret Voltaire.
Release and reception
The book received a subvention by the American Musicological Society&