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[Rupert Till] Ô Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music 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 Cults investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity. He concludes by discussing how and why popul
| Title | : | Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (710 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826432360 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
Defensive Book I'm a graduate student in religion and the arts, and I consulted this book as part of my master's thesis. I am also a Gen X indie-folk singer/songwriter who was raised on the rock and pop traditions that Till references. I have experienced the transcendence of rock concerts. So I was looking forward to this book. But I was pretty disappointed.Till appropriates the st. "if you have to read the book for class, so be it. Otherwise don't even bother with this book." according to Paola. This book is very one-sided. As stated already it has a defensive tone to it and only talks about the pros of counter culture. It seems like he's very biased towards the subject. The fact that he claims that popular music has taken over where religion has failed is a big statement to make especially with no actual facts behind it; he references no journals, or statis. If not for this class I would have never wasted my time or money on this useless piece of I have to read this book for a college course I'm only 3 pages in and getting gross over generalizations up the yin-yang. If not for this class I would have never wasted my time or money on this useless piece of soap box. The reviewer Kristen above me is correct Till tries to justify the new movements as positive without bothering to analyze the negative or destructi
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 relati
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 Cults investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity. He concludes by discussing how and why popular music cultures have taken on many of the roles of traditional religions in contemporary society.. 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
(Sanford Lakoff) . the useful concluding chapter gives a wake-up call to a Church that has lost touch with culture, and a well-argued case for how popular music is in part filling its place
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