RT Book
T1 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music
T2 Bloomsbury Handbooks in Religion Ser
A1 Partridge, Christopher
A2 Moberg, Marcus
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/88010225X
AB 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?
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
SN 9781474237352
K1 Popular music - Religious aspects
K1 Electronic books