The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Images -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The study of religion and popular music -- Methodologies -- Critical musicology and the sacred -- Part 1 The Study of Religion and Popular Music: Theoretical Perspectives, Methodologies and Issues -...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Handbooks in Religion Ser
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Popular music - Religious aspects
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Partridge, Christopher: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781474237338 |
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Images -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The study of religion and popular music -- Methodologies -- Critical musicology and the sacred -- Part 1 The Study of Religion and Popular Music: Theoretical Perspectives, Methodologies and Issues -- Chapter 1 Ethnography, Popular Music and Religion -- Part 1: Ethnography: Origins and trajectories -- Part 2: 'Telling it like it is': Ethnography, popular music and everyday life -- 'This is my truth': One-to-one interviews -- 'Through a different lens': Participant and non-participant observation -- 'Of one and many voices': Focus groups -- 'Across the great divide': Insider research -- Worlds within worlds: Virtual ethnography -- A work in progress: Limitations of ethnographic research -- Chapter 2 Emotion, Meaning and Popular Music -- The social meaning of popular music -- Intertextuality and the construction of affective space -- Music as a prosthetic technology -- Concluding comments: Music, emotion and religion -- Chapter 3 Music, Religion and Protest -- Demonizing music -- Self-determination -- Chapter 4 Censorship, Religion and Popular Music -- Religion as a moral regulator -- The inherent evil of popular music -- Popular music censorship -- Forms of religious censorship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Feminism, Gender and Popular Music -- Initial considerations -- Gender and the evaluation of popular music -- Aesthetics, rock/pop and the body -- Negotiating Gendered Meanings: Kate Bush and Madonna -- Part 2 Religious Perspectives -- Chapter 6 The Bible and Popular Music -- Some kicks of the bass drum: Brief uses of the Bible in popular music -- Three symbol crashes: Sustained uses of the Bible in popular music -- Closing thoughts -- Chapter 7 Theology, Imagination and Popular Music -- What has graceland to do with Jerusalem? Post-secular popular music -- The swarming forms of the banal -- Chapter 8 Christianity, Worship and Popular Music -- Part one: Christian attitudes towards (popular) music in worship - a short history -- Part two: Using popular worship music -- Part three: 'Learning to listen' to popular worship music -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Contemporary Christian Music -- In the beginning -- Baby boom -- Rock 'n' roll -- Christian hippies -- The new 'hip' language -- Trailblazers -- Production and distribution, and contributions -- Christian festivals -- The changing face of CCM -- Chapter 10 Islam and Popular Music -- Muslim theologians on music -- The philosophers and the Sufis -- Islamic legal scholars -- Popular music in the contemporary Islamic context -- Conclusions -- Chapter 11 Jews, Judaism and Popular Music -- Judaic and Jewish -- What is Jewish music? -- The Jazz Singer -- Jewish-American popular music -- The new Jewish music -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Hinduism and Popular Music -- Introduction -- Western popular music: Cultural exchange or cultural appropriation? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Buddhism and Popular Music -- Introduction -- Tibetan Buddhist sacred performing arts -- Western artists and Buddhism -- Conclusion: Buddhist-inflected popular musical styles and context-appropriate sounds -- Chapter 14 Japanese Religion and Popular Music -- Complicating religion in contemporary Japan -- From matsuri (festivals) to Handel's 'Messiah' -- Mixed messages in heavy metal, hip hop and 'Hannya Shingyō' -- Alternative spirituality in psychedelic-trance raves -- Ritual in the underground Tokyo hard-core scene -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15 Chinese Religions and Popular Music -- Overview of Chinese religions -- Popular music in Chinese religions -- Chinese religions in popular music -- Diffused religious ideas in popular music: Mingyun and Yuanfun Particular religious philosophies in popular music: Buddhist and Taoist teachings -- In search of Chinese religious elements in pop music -- Chapter 16 Paganism and Popular Music -- What is Paganism? -- What is popular music? -- Methodology -- Websites, blogs and podcasts -- Public perception -- Pagan festivals -- Musical analysis -- Paramusical analysis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 17 Popular Music and the Occult -- The Devil's music -- Early extreme metal -- Norwegian black metal, Satanism and Heathenism -- Metal and the occult milieu -- Occult rock -- The ritual black metal scene -- Beyond metal: Industrial, post-industrial and neofolk music -- Hip hop and the occult connection -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18 Caribbean Religions and Popular Music -- Haiti -- Dominican Republic -- Cuba -- Jamaica -- Part 3 Genres -- Chapter 19 Heavy Metal -- Heavy metal music: Historical development and engagement with religion and religious themes -- Heavy metal music studies and religion -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 20 Pop and Rock -- Pop -- Rock -- Pop, rock and religion -- Chapter 21 Punk and Hardcore -- Christianity -- Hinduism -- Judaism -- Islam -- Buddhism -- DIY spirituality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 22 Reggae -- The roots of reggae: Afro-Christianity, Rastafari and Millenarianism -- Reggae and biblical Millenarianism -- Chanting down Babylon -- Dub esotericism -- Concluding comments -- Chapter 23 Folk Music -- Folk music and national identity -- Folk music and musical identity -- Folk music and personal identity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 24 Country Music and Religion -- History and authenticity claims -- Religious history and themes -- Case study: Johnny Cash, religion and masculinity -- Chapter 25 Electronic Dance Music: Trance and Techno-Shamanism -- EDM and religion -- Psytrance -- Liminalization in EDM -- Trance and the technoshaman -- Conclusion Chapter 26 Blues and Jazz -- Introduction -- Background and contexts -- Discussion -- Chapter 27 Psychedelic Music -- The emergence of psychedelic culture -- Psychedelic spirituality and popular music in the 1960s -- Paganism, occultism and psychedelic folk -- Psychedelic dance and ambient music -- Concluding comments -- Chapter 28 Rap and Hip Hop -- Beginnings and contexts -- Aesthetics and poetics -- Culture and power -- Chapter 29 Goth Music and Subculture -- Goth symbols: Dark angels of sin -- Goth spaces: Multisensory heterotopias -- Goth sounds: Liminal liturgies -- Non/religious occulture between God and the Devil -- Chapter 30 Ambient Music -- Introduction -- The development of ambient music -- Brian Eno and ambient music -- Chill out music -- Ambient music in religion and religion in ambient music -- Chapter 31 Popular Music and the Religious Screen -- Introduction -- Popular music for purpose -- Gospel markers -- Racial markers -- Spatial markers -- Machine Gun Preacher -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Filmography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1474237355 |