Popular music in evangelical youth culture / Stella Sai-Chun Lau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lau, Stella Sai-Chun, 1977- author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Religion

Routledge studies in religion ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Popular music.

Electronic dance music--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Electronic dance music.

Youth--Religious life.

Youth.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella Lau illustrates how electronic dance music is legitimized in evangelical activities by Christians' discourses, and how the discourses challenge the divide between the 'secular' and the 'sacred' in the Western culture. Unlike other existing books on the relationship

Contents:

The historical development of the use of popular music in Christian contexts

The historical background and development of alternative worship

NGM in Bristol, England: popular music, "church planting"

24-7 mission on Ibiza, Spain: electronic dance music, spirituality, and community

Artisan and tribe in New York: network sociality, ambient electronic dance music, and urban contexts

Theorizing religion and popular music.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24473-5

0-203-10343-2

1-283-86182-8

1-136-24474-3

9780203103432

OCLC:

820785345