Pop cult : religion and popular music / Rupert Till.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Till, Rupert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Religious aspects.

Popular music.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes discography and filmography.

ISBN:

9786612821936

9781472549181

147254918X

9781441197245

1441197249

9781282821934

1282821938

9781441166265

1441166262

OCLC:

670412160