Call me the seeker : listening to religion in popular music / edited by Michael J. Gilmour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilmour, Michael J.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Religious aspects.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2005.

Summary:

An interdisciplinary examination of the relationship of music and religion.

Contents:

Religious sources behind popular music

Religious themes in popular music

Religion and popular music's audiences.

Introduction. Radios in religious studies departments : preliminary reflections on the study of religion in popular music / Michael J. Gilmour.

Religious sources behind popular music. Shekhinah a woman : kabbalistic references in Dylan's Infidels / Daniel Maoz

"I ain't got no home in this world anymore" : protest and promise in Woody Guthrie and the Jesus tradition / James Knight

The prophet Jeremiah, Aung San Suu Kyi, and U2's All that you can't leave behind : on listening to Bono's jeremiad / Michael J. Gilmour.

Religious themes in popular music. Suffering and sacrifice in context : apocalypticism and life beyond Les miserables / Karl J. McDaniel

Comic endings : spirit and flesh in Bono's apocalyptic imagination, 1980-1983 / Brian Froese

Faith, doubt, and the imagination : Nick Cave on the divine-human encounter / Anna Kessler

Metallica and the God that failed : an unfinished tragedy in three acts / Paul Martens

The nature of his game : a textual analysis of "Sympathy for the devil" / Harold Penner

God, the bad, and the ugly : the Vi(t)a negativa of Nick Cave and P.J. Harvey / J.R.C. Cousland

"Pulling back the darkness" : starbound with John Anderson / Randall Holm.

Religion and popular music's audiences. "God's smiling on you and he's frowning too" : rap and the problem of evil / Angela M. Nelson

Transcendent trancer : the scholar and the rave / Tim Olaveson

Under the shadow of the almighty : fan reception of some religious aspects in the work and career of the Irish popular musician Sinéad O'Connor / Andreas Häger

Planet rock : black socioreligious movements and early 1980s electro / Thomas Nesbit

Spirituality through the science of sound : the DJ as technoshaman in rave culture / Melanie Takahashi

Jesus, mama, and the constraints on salvific love in contemporary country music / Maxine L. Grossman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0826417132

0826417140

OCLC:

57366535