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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主要作者: Jacobs, Stephen (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: University of Saskatchewan [2017]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2017, 卷: 29, 發布: 1, Pages: 1-18
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The Art of Living Foundation / Yoga / Bhajana / Kirtana / Jam session / Pop music / Rock music (motif)
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBF British Isles
Further subjects: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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總結: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 phenomena—modern 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.
ISSN:1703-289X
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.29.1.3041