Pop Cult
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Pop Cult

Religion and Popular Music

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Pop Cult

Religion and Popular Music

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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 Cult 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 Till explores the cults of heavy metal, pop stars, club culture and virtual popular music worlds, investigating the sex, drug, local and death cults of the sacred popular, and their relationships with traditional religions. He concludes by discussing how and why popular music cultures have taken on many of the roles of traditional religions in contemporary society.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2010
ISBN
9781441197245
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology of Religion
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: Pleased to Meet You: Pop Cults and the Sacred Popular
  6. 1 Lost in Music: Pop Cults and New Religious Movements
  7. 2 Let’s Talk About Sex: Sex Cults of Popular Music
  8. 3 I Want to Take You Higher: Drug Cults of Popular Music
  9. 4 We Could Be Heroes: Personality Cults of the Sacred Popular
  10. 5 In My Beautiful Neighbourhood: Local Cults of Popular Music
  11. 6 Even Better Than the Real Thing: Virtual Cults of Popular Music
  12. 7 Hope I Die Before I Get Old: Death Cults of Popular Music
  13. 8 God Is a DJ: Possession Trance Cults of Electronic Dance Music
  14. 9 Do You Believe in Rock and Roll? Musical Cults of the Sacred Popular
  15. Bibliography
  16. Websites and Online References
  17. Discography
  18. Films, Television, DVDs and Videos
  19. Footnotes
  20. Index
  21. eCopyright