Rupert Till's Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music PDF

By Rupert Till

ISBN-10: 0826432360

ISBN-13: 9780826432360

ISBN-10: 0826445926

ISBN-13: 9780826445926

At a time whilst fundamentalism is at the upward push, conventional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any process that says to be all-defining, kids have left their conventional locations of worship and arrange their very own, in golf equipment, at gala's and inside of track tradition.

Pop Cults investigates the ways that well known song and its surrounding tradition became a major web site for the site of which means, trust and identification. It offers an advent to the historical past of the interactions of vernacular track and faith, and the position of tune in non secular tradition.

Rupert until eventually explores the cults of heavy steel, pop stars, membership tradition and digital well known tune worlds, investigating the intercourse, drug, neighborhood and dying cults of the sacred renowned, and their relationships with conventional religions.

He concludes by way of discussing how and why renowned track cultures have taken on a few of the roles of conventional religions in modern society.

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