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Michael N. Goddard is Reader in Media and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK.
This book presents the musical evolution of Coil, not merely as a passage between a range of musical styles from industrial to acid house, drone, glitch, and ambient but also as a spiraling vortex in and through which many of the key cultural events of the late 20th Century were mobilized and transformed. Coil traversed cultural experiences from the AIDS crisis of the 1980s to the late 1980s' new summer of love of acid house, to the revitalization of post-punk/industrial bands in the 2000s. These phenomena were transfigured in Coil's musical practices, generating a decentred perspective on late 20th-century cultural history that remained throughout a genuinely alternative and eccentric one.