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Pop Cult - Religion and Popular Music (Hardcover)
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Pop Cult - Religion and Popular Music (Hardcover)
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This book explores the development of a range of cults of popular
music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning,
spirituality and religion in society. 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. 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.
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