Overview

Through in-depth case studies, Religion and Popular Music explores encounters between music, fans and religion. The book examines several popular music artists - including Bob Dylan, Prince and Katy Perry - and looks at the way religion comes into play in their work and personas. Genres explored by contributing authors include country, folk, rock, metal and Electronic Dance Music. Case studies in the book originate from a variety of geographic and cultural contexts, focusing on topics such as nationalism and hard rock in Russia, fan culture in Argentina, and punk and Islam in Indonesia. Chapters engage with the central issue of how global music meets local audiences and practices, and considers how fans as well as religious groups react to the uses of religion in popular music. It also looks at how they make these interactions between popular music and religion components in their own identity, community and practice. Tapping into a vital and lively topic of teaching, research and wider cultural interest, and employing diverse methodologies across musicians, fans and religious groups, this book is an important contribution to the growing field of religion and popular music studies.

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Author:   Andreas Häger (Abo Akademi University, Finland) ,  Christopher Partridge (University of Lancaster UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781350001473

ISBN 10:   1350001473
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 September 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of contributor biographies Introduction, Andreas Häger Part One: Artists 1. Metaphors and symbols in popular music as exemplified in Katy Perry’s music and music videos, Adrian-Mario Gellel (University of Malta, Malta) 2. CeCe Winans, Black Gospel music and the ambivalence of stardom, Angela M Spence Nelson (Bowling Green State University, USA) 3. Judas Priest and the Fury of Metal Redemption, Brian Froese (Canadian Mennonite University, Canada) 4. The Art of Darkness: On Biblical Language in Ozzy Osbourne’s Solo Albums 1980-2010, Michael J. Gilmour (Providence University College, Canada) Part Two: Fans 5. Consecrating an extraordinary being: Fan culture among Gilda’s followers in Argentina, Eloisa Martin (Federal Universityof Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 6. God is in the House: Nick Cave, Religion, and Serbian Fandom, Sabina Hadžibulic (Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden) 7. I'm your Messiah and you're the Reason why: Para-religiosity in the fandom around Prince, Carla Schriever (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Part Three: Cultures 8. My Pravoslavnye: Russkii rok, Orthodoxy and nationalism in post-Soviet Russia, David Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 9. “Can I Take My Dog With Me To Heaven?” Swedish Country music and religion, Thomas Bossius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 10. Punk and religion in Indonesia, Jim Donaghey (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) 11. Dylan goes to church: The use of Bob Dylan’s music in Protestant churches, Andreas Häger (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) 12. Theatre in Search of a Storyline: The DJ As “Technoshaman” in the digital age of EDM, Melanie Takahashi (independent scholar) Bibliography Index

Reviews

The articles are in-depth and interesting ... The first chapter is a marvellous article by Eloisa Martin. Well-grounded in research, engaged and a really good topic about the Argentine cumbia singer Gilda who has a cult following that equals that of Elvis in its religiously coloured language and practices. * Nordic Journal of Religion and Society * [I]n moments of close attention to [the] evolving relationships and frontiers between social, cultural, and religious spheres that this book is most productive - both in contributing to the formation of a field of study, and as a topical theorization of an oft-overlooked cluster of contemporary cultural practices. * Swedish Journal of Music Research *

To say religion and music together is to conjure often stereotypical genres like gospel, Christian rock, Sufi music, or tribal drumming. Andreas Hager's wonderful collection of deeply informed and often surprising research from a global array of scholars and practitioners blows this conception the stereotypical genres associated with religion and music out of the water. , From Judas Priest to Katy Perry, Swedish country music to Nick Cave, Rreaders will come away with a unique understanding of how religion penetrates the cracks in the social being of artists, fans, and the cultures they create as popular music is produced, distributed and consumed. * Mark A. Le Vine, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Irvine, USA * The relationship between religion and popular music is complex and multi-faceted. Sometimes they are separate, even antagonistic, fields and sometimes the boundary between them dissolves almost entirely. Collectively, Tthe 12 case studiesy chapters in this collection offer a kaleidoscopic view of the synergies and tensions between religion and popular music around the world. This book Addressing topics as diverse as Judas Priest, Bob Dylan, Indonesian punk and Serbian Nick Cave fans, Religion and Popular Music: Artists, Fans and Cultures demonstrates how a consideration of religion belongs at the centre of any attempt to understand popular music globally and historically. * Keith Kahn-Harris, Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Religion, Leo Baeck College, United Kingdom * The great merit of this diverse collection of lively essays is its sheer variety. The essays confirm and embody the value of sustained and intense engagement with popular music as a necessary cultural, ethical and religious task. Surprising juxtapositions emerge (Nick Cave in Serbia, country music in Sweden) which both inform and spark the imagination. This is a very valuable collection. * Clive Marsh, Head of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Leicester, UK * A fascinating examination of how popular music is implicated in religious change and, indeed, in what we understand by `religion' in the first place. * Titus Hjelm, Reader in Sociology, University College London, UK *

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Andreas Häger is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

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