Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
eBook - ePub

Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

About this book

Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella Lau illustrates how electronic dance music is legitimized in evangelical activities by Christians' discourses, and how the discourses challenge the divide between the 'secular' and the 'sacred' in the Western culture.

Unlike other existing books on the relationships between music cultures and religion, which predominantly discuss the cultural implications of such phenomenon, Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture examines the notion of 'spirituality' in contemporary popular electronic dance music. Lau's emphasis on the sonic qualities of electronic dance music opens the door for future research about the relationships between aural properties of electronic dance music and religious discourses. With three case studies conducted in the cultural hubs of electronic dance music – Bristol, Ibiza and New York – the monograph can also be used as a guidebook for ethnographic research in popular music.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136244735
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Historical Development of the Use of Popular Music in Christian Contexts
  10. 2 The Historical Background and Development of Alternative Worship
  11. 3 NGM in Bristol, England—Popular Music, 'Church Planting'
  12. 4 24-7 Mission on Ibiza, Spain—Electronic Dance Music, Spirituality and Community
  13. 5 Artisan and Tribe in New York—Network Sociality, Ambient Electronic Dance Music and Urban Contexts
  14. 6 Theorising Religion and Popular Music
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index