Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre tracing industrial music's trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's founding of the record label Industrial Music in 1976, to its peak in popularity on the back of the band Nine Inch Nails in the mid-1990s, and through its decline to the present day. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. By the mid-1990s, it was seen as simply another style of pop music, and had ironically fallen into the trappings it sought by its very existence to destroy. Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music - Kindle edition by Reed, S. But, as industrial music took on more and more elements of popular music over the course of the 1980s it slowly abandoned its mission. In its early days, bands such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire produced a genuinely radical form of music bent on recontextualizing the signs and methods of cultural authority in an attempt to liberate listeners from the trappings of modernity. Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups who combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and style of punk rock. Exotica, Caricature, and the Techno-Oblivious White Souls in Black Suits: Industrial Music and Race Back and Forth: Industrial Music and Fascism

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Assimilate by S. Alexander Reed