Pop cult : religion and popular music
At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and within music culture. Pop Cults investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity. It provides an introduction to the history of the interactions of vernacular music and religion, and the role of music in religious culture. Rupert Til
1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations
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Lost in music : pop cults and new religious movements
Let's talk about sex : sex cults of popular music
I want to take you higher : drug cults of popular music
We could be heroes : personality cults of the sacred popular
In my beautiful neighbourhood : local cults of popular music
Even better than the real thing : virtual cults of popular music
Hope I die before I get old : death cults of popular music
God is a DJ : possession trance cults of electronic dance music
Do you believe in rock and roll? Musical cults of the sacred popular
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