Call me the seeker : listening to religion in popular music /: listening to religion in popular music. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael J. Gilmour.
• Other Names: Gilmour, Michael J
• Contents: Religious sources behind popular music -- Religious themes in popular music -- Religion and popular music's audiences. Introduction. Radios in religious studies departments : preliminary reflections on the study of religion in popular music / Michael J. Gilmour. Religious sources behind popular music. Shekhinah a woman : kabbalistic references in Dylan's Infidels / Daniel Maoz -- "I ain't got no home in this world anymore" : protest and promise in Woody Guthrie and the Jesus tradition / James Knight -- The prophet Jeremiah, Aung San Suu Kyi, and U2's All that you can't leave behind : on listening to Bono's jeremiad / Michael J. Gilmour. Religious themes in popular music. Suffering and sacrifice in context : apocalypticism and life beyond Les miserables / Karl J. McDaniel -- Comic endings : spirit and flesh in Bono's apocalyptic imagination, 1980-1983 / Brian Froese -- Faith, doubt, and the imagination : Nick Cave on the divine-human encounter / Anna Kessler -- Metallica and the God that failed : an unfinished tragedy in three acts / Paul Martens -- The nature of his game : a textual analysis of "Sympathy for the devil" / Harold Penner -- God, the bad, and the ugly : the Vi(t)a negativa of Nick Cave and P.J. Harvey / J.R.C. Cousland -- "Pulling back the darkness" : starbound with John Anderson / Randall Holm. Religion and popular music's audiences. "God's smiling on you and he's frowning too" : rap and the problem of evil / Angela M. Nelson -- Transcendent trancer : the scholar and the rave / Tim Olaveson -- Under the shadow of the almighty : fan reception of some religious aspects in the work and career of the Irish popular musician Sinéad O'Connor / Andreas Häger -- Planet rock : black socioreligious movements and early 1980s electro / Thomas Nesbit -- Spirituality through the science of sound : the DJ as technoshaman in rave culture / Melanie Takahashi -- Jesus, mama, and the constraints on salvific love in contemporary country music / Maxine L. Grossman.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 781.64/112; Popular music -- Religious aspects; MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal; Popular music -- Religious aspects; Popmusik; Religion; Popmuziek; Religieuze aspecten; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441172846
• Related ISBNs: 144117284X; 0826417132; 9780826417138; 0826417140; 9780826417145
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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