As noted in a previous blog entry, I have my first book review on Reed's 2013 text 'Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music' out in the journal Rock Music Studies. Whereas before the review was only ahead of print, it is now out in in it's proper home amongst other articles in a recent issue and you can find it here.
It's a hard book to swallow, much like industrial music itself, given the huge scope of the book. Going into detail on different 'scenes' including in Sheffield and Berlin, Reed exploits rich qualitative interviews from key players to provide an authoritative overview of industrial music to date. Notably, the book includes a series of lists with key industrial songs; perhaps in the future books will include QR codes or something similar to take readers straight to them?
It's a hard book to swallow, much like industrial music itself, given the huge scope of the book. Going into detail on different 'scenes' including in Sheffield and Berlin, Reed exploits rich qualitative interviews from key players to provide an authoritative overview of industrial music to date. Notably, the book includes a series of lists with key industrial songs; perhaps in the future books will include QR codes or something similar to take readers straight to them?
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References
Brown, S.C. (2014). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music [Review of the book Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, by Reed, S.A.]. Rock Music Studies, 1(2), 193-195.
Reed, S.A. (2013). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
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