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Mortality and music : popular music and the awareness of death / Christopher Partridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partridge, Christopher H. (Christopher Hugh), 1961- author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music.
- Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death in music.
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Mortality and immortality
- Death and the sacred
- The undead and the uncanny
- Morbidity, violence, and suicide
- Transfiguration, devotion and immortality.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474219198
- 1474219195
- 9781472526809
- 1472526805
- OCLC:
- 944225626
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