Yoga Jam: Remixing kirtan in the Art of Living
Yoga Jam are a group of musicians from the United Kingdom who are active members of the Art of Living, a transnational Hindu-derived meditation group. Yoga Jam organize events also referred to as yoga raves and yoga remixes that combine Hindu devotional songs (bhajans) and chants (mantras) with mo...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2017]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Année: 2017, Volume: 29, Numéro: 1, Pages: 1-18 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
The Art of Living Foundation
/ Yoga
/ Bhajan
/ Kirtana
/ Jam session
/ Musique pop
/ Musique rock (motif)
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux BK Hindouisme KBF Îles britanniques |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Authenticity
B modernity / tradition B electronic dance music B Yoga B profane / sacred B wellbeing spirituality B Art of Living Foundation |
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| Résumé: | Yoga Jam are a group of musicians from the United Kingdom who are active members of the Art of Living, a transnational Hindu-derived meditation group. Yoga Jam organize events also referred to as yoga raves and yoga remixes that combine Hindu devotional songs (bhajans) and chants (mantras) with modern Western popular musical genres, such as soul, rock, and particularly electronic dance music. This hybrid music is often played in a clublike setting, and dancing is interspersed with yoga and meditation. Yoga jams are creative fusions of what at first sight seem to be two incompatible phenomenamodern electronic dance music culture and ancient yogic traditions. However, yoga jams make sense if the Durkheimian distinction between the sacred and the profane is challenged, and if tradition and modernity are not understood as existing in a sort of inverse relationship. This paper argues that yoga raves are authenticated through the somatic experience of the modern popular cultural phenomenon of clubbing combined with therapeutic yoga practices and validated by identifying this experience with a reimagined Vedic tradition. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.29.1.3041 |