Research Catalog

Title

Bodies, noise and power in industrial music / Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter, editors.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Whittaker, Jason, 1969-
• Potter, Elizabeth

Description

xi, 202 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the impact of technology on the production of music. With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh, transgressive, and radically charged genre. The soundscape of the industrial is intense and powerful, adorned with taboo images, and thematically concerned with authority and control. Elemental to the genre is critical engagement with configurations of the body and related power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection analyses the treatment of subjects like the Body (animal, human, machine), Noise (rhythmic, harsh) and Power (authority, institutions, law) in a variety of industrial musics elements. Throughout the collection, these three subjects are interrogated by examining lyrics, aesthetics, music videos, song writing, performance and audience reception. The chapters have been carefully selected to produce a diverse and intersectional perspective, including work on Black industrial musicians and Arabic and North African womens collaborations. Rather than providing historical context, the contributors interpret the finer elements of the aesthetics and discourses around physical bodies and power as expressed in the genre, expanding the industrial boundary and broadening the focus beyond white European industrial music. .

Series Statement

Pop music, culture and identity

Uniform Title

Pop music, culture and identity.

Subject

• Industrial music > History and criticism
• Industrial music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Human body in music
• Industrial music

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.

Call Number

JMD 22-28

ISBN

• 3030924610
• 9783030924614

OCLC

1305095019

Title

Bodies, noise and power in industrial music / Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pop music, culture and identity

Pop music, culture and identity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.

Added Author

Whittaker, Jason, 1969- editor.

Potter, Elizabeth, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030924621

Research Call Number

JMD 22-28