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Dead Channel Surfing: the commonalities between cyberpunk literature and industrial music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

KAREN COLLINS
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Abstract

This paper explores the similarities between industrial music and ‘cyberpunk’ science fiction literature. Besides the obvious instances where there are direct references to each other, there are further connections between music and literature that are explored here. Situating the two forms within the tradition of twentieth-century Western dystopias, the focus of the paper is on the similarity of themes (relationship to technology, control by a totalitarian elite, apocalyptic worlds, resistance groups), techniques (in language or structure), moods (the tones and attitudes), and imagery (through language or music) used to illustrate and enhance these themes.

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Popular Music , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , May 2005 , pp. 165 - 178
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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