This groundbreaking volume examines the relationship between new religions, alternative spiritualities, and popular music.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on scholarship within the study of new religions, the sociology of religion, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and critical musicology. It examines the ways in which devotion to a band can lead to the establishment of a new religion and also
how new religions use popular music evangelistically, ritualistically, and as a source of income.
What emerges is a complex picture in which religious beliefs and popular music cultures cross-fertilize each other in unexpected and fascinating ways.
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New Religions, Spiritualities, and Popular Music
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Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
EthnomusicologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Mormon hip-hop musical project
- Chapter 2: ISKCON and popular music
- Chapter 3: Globalist breathing: Voice, technology and antecedence in the music of Islamic State
- Chapter 4: Religion, music and Cold War politics: The Unification Church and the Little Angels in South Korea
- Chapter 5: Haunted paradise: The continuity of music-making from Jonestown and the Peoples Temple
- Chapter 6: Chant down Babylon: Rastafari and reggae
- Chapter 7: Children of Barleycorn: Music in the druidic religious imagination
- Chapter 8: Musical creativity in The Process
- Chapter 9: I think I see the Mothership coming: From Christian scepticism to alternative religious experiences in the P-Funk u iverse.
- Chapter 10: Did you ever go Clear?: The use (and abuse) of Scientology in popular music
- Chapter 11: A melodic disorder: Chaos Gnosticism in contemporary music
- Chapter 12: New Age music: The sonic production of Utopia
- Chapter 13: The Spirit of ’76: Father Yod, The Source Family and the role of popular music
- Chapter 14: Psychic TV: Hauntological cultic rejection and autoethnographic legacies
- Chapter 15: Sacred jazz and devotion at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church
- Chapter 16: Spinning centripetally or spinning centrifugally: Building a religion from the Grateful Dead’s music
- Notes
- Index
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