One thing that becomes clear over the course of Industry is the degree to which the group's embrace of the market in practical terms amounted to an embrace of marketing.
William Robin is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Maryland's School of Music. He has published work on contemporary music, orchestral culture, and early American hymns in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musical Quarterly, and the Journal of Musicology, and he contributes regularly to The New York Times.