Assimilate

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reed, S. Alexander.

Assimilate : a critical history of industrial music / S. Alexander Reed.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-19-983258-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-19-983260-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Industrial music—History and criticism. I. Title.

ML3528.7.R44 2013

781.64809—dc23 2012042281

1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

Publication for this book was supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.