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The Lyre of Orpheus - Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (Paperback)
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The Lyre of Orpheus - Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (Paperback)
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The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known
since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to
guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces
within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of
particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge
explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships
with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and
symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures. He
shows how popular musics power to move, to agitate, to control
listeners, to shape their identities, and to structure their
everyday lives is central to constructions of the sacred and the
profane. In particular, he argues that popular music can be
important edgework, challenging dominant constructions of the
sacred in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of musicians
and musical genres, as well as a number of theoretical approaches
from critical musicology, cultural theory, sociology, theology, and
the study of religion, The Lyre of Orpheus reveals the significance
and the progressive potential of popular music.
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