Exploring The Spiritual In Popular Music: Beatified Beats (Bloomsbury Studies In Religion And Popular Music)

Introduction . by Mike Dines & Georgina Gregory -- Chapter 1.: Beatified beats, ritualized rhymes: intersections of the popular and the sacred in music / by Antti-Ville Karja -- Section One. Personal spirituality. Chapter 2. Leonard Cohen, the 'Sufi' mystic / by Jirí Mesíc ; Chapter 3: Hank and Jesus: the integral roles of religion and the history of country music in the lives and careers of contemporary country artists / by Gillian Kelly ; Chapter 4: Above the clouds: discourses of the spiritual and the religious in the lyrics of Paul Weller / by Paul Spicer -- Section Two. Christianity. Chapter 5. 'Embracing the divine chaos': transcending the sacred-secular divide in the 1990s British rave church movement / by Lucy Robinson & Chris Warne. Chapter 6. Pop goes to church: taste, class and 'chav' Christianity / by Georgina Gregory ; Chapter 7. 'The time has come, Exodus!': Congo Natty and the jungle (r)evolution / by Shara Rambarran ; Chapter 8. 'Between hipsters and God there is Sufjan Stevens': Sufjan Stevens & his fans / by Katelyn Medic -- Section Three. Alternative religions. Chapter 9. 'Save my soul from the poisons of this world': straight edge punk and religious re-enchantment / by Francis Stewart ; Chapter 10: 'Message From thee temple': magick, occultism, mysticism and psychic TV / by Mike Dines and Matt Grimes ; Chapter 11. I am god! The transference of musical fandom as religion to worshipping the self / by Javier Campos Calvo-Sotel.

• | Author: Georgina Gregory, Christopher Partridge, Mike Dines
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: February 25, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350086924
• | ISBN-13: 9781350086920