Table Of ContentPOP MUSIC, CULTURE AND IDENTITY
Bodies, Noise and Power
in Industrial Music
Edited by
Jason Whittaker · Elizabeth Potter
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Series Editors
Stephen Clark
Graduate School Humanities and Sociology
University of Tokyo
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Department of English
St Jerome’s University
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School of English & Journalism
University of Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Pop music lasts. A form all too often assumed to be transient, commercial
and mass-cultural has proved itself durable, tenacious and continually
evolving. As such, it has become a crucial component in defining various
forms of identity (individual and collective) as influenced by nation, class,
gender and historical period. Pop Music, Culture and Identity investigates
how this enhanced status shapes the iconography of celebrity, provides an
ever-expanding archive for generational memory and accelerates the
impact of new technologies on performing, packaging and global
marketing. The series gives particular emphasis to interdisciplinary
approaches that go beyond musicology and seeks to validate the informed
testimony of the fan alongside academic methodologies.
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Bodies, Noise and
Power in Industrial
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ontents
1 Introduction: Assemblages and Interventions 1
Elizabeth Potter and Jason Whittaker
2 “My Body Disgusts Me”: Swans, Biopolitics, and the
Hangman’s Noose of Success 19
James McCrea
3 Nafada: Industrial, Hip-Hop, and the Diasporic Condition 37
Rachael Gunn, Susie Khamis, and Steve Collins
4 “The Odds of the Body”: Clipping. and Escaping the
Power Hold on the Black Body 55
Daniel Gillespie
5 All Too Human: Industrial Bodies and Anti- bodies in the
Time of AIDS 71
Jason Whittaker
6 Chance Meeting: Disembodied Voices in the Work of
Nurse with Wound and Cabaret Voltaire 87
Rupert Loydell
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7 The Last Attempt at Paradise: Early Industrial Culture in
Kansas 109
Francis X. Connor
8 Industrial Music and Inner Experience: Aural Abrasion as
a Window to Post-Subjectivity 129
Jay Fraser
9 The Occultural Side of Industrial: From Its Origins to
Industrial Black Metal 143
M. Cecilia Marchetto Santorun
10 “Happiness in Slavery,” or Industrial Erotic 163
Elizabeth Potter
Works Cited 177
Index 195
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otes on ontributors
Steve Collins is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media,
Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie
University, Sydney. His research focuses on the intersections of creativity,
technology, disruption, and law. He also produces industrial and elec-
tronic music in Konqistador, z(cluster), INfest8, and Other, as well as
numerous remixing projects.
Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State
University. A Shakespearean and Book Historian, his first book, Literary
Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern English, was published by
Palgrave in 2014. He is working with Darren DeFrain on No Choice But
Action (University Press of Kansas), a history of post-punk and indie
scenes in Kansas from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Jay Fraser is a writer and poet from Lincolnshire. A master’s student, he
graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2019 and is interested in the
philosophy of anarchism, horror, and the post-human. He watches too
many movies and even enjoys some of them.
Daniel Gillespie is a PhD student at Idaho State with a wide range of inter-
ests including modernism, rap music, and twenty-first-century American
culture. He has presented on Get Out as a zombie movie, the Adult Swim
short Too Many Cooks and destruction of self in Rick and Morty. His PhD
explores BoJack Horseman and sincerity in reaction of postmodern cynicism.
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Rachael Gunn is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications,
Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney.
She is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the constructions of
gender and the dancing body, the intersections between theory and prac-
tice, and Sydney’s hip-hop dance scene. She is a practising breaker and is a
member of the Sydney breaking crew 143 Liverpool Street Familia.
Susie Khamis is Senior Lecturer in Public Communication at University
of Technology Sydney. Her research areas are branding, representations of
cultural diversity, and consumer cultures. She has written widely in these
areas, and her research focuses on how successful global brands represent
cultural diversity in their marketing media.
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Writing and
Journalism at Falmouth University, the editor of Stride magazine, and
contributing editor to International Times. He is a widely published poet
whose most recent poetry books are Dear Mary (2017) and A Confusion
of Marys (2020). He has edited anthologies for Salt, Shearsman and KFS,
written for academic journals such as Punk & Post-Punk, New Writing,
Revenant, Axon, and Musicology Research, and contributed co-written
chapters to Brian Eno. Oblique Music (2016), Critical Essays on Twin
Peaks: The Return (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and Music in Twin Peaks:
Listen to the Sounds! (2021).
James McCrea is a PhD student in Manchester Metropolitan University’s
Gothic Studies department whose research focuses on materialities of the
body as well as iconologies of death and dying.
Elizabeth Potter is a PhD student at the University of York. Her thesis
focuses on William Blake’s marginalia to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
(1798). She analyses the manuscript notes on material and conceptual
levels to provide insight into Blake’s aesthetics and artistic philosophies.
Beyond her thesis, she is also interested in transatlantic studies, visual cul-
ture, and affect theory.
M. Cecilia Marchetto Santorun holds a PhD from the University of
Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and a member of the research group
Discourse and Identity. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Lincoln
and has completed a comparative study of William Blake and Alan Moore.
Jason Whittaker is Head of English and Journalism at the University of
Lincoln. He mainly writes on the reception of William Blake, but also has
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
published on digital technologies and culture as well as post-punk and
industrial music. His most recent books include Divine Images: The Life
and Work of William Blake (2021) and Jerusalem: Blake, Parry and the
Fight for Englishness (2022).
