Mortality and Music

Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

AvChristopher Partridge,Christopher Partridge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music

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Beskrivning

The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans’ responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music’s treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:517 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472534514

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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Christopher Partridge is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. Recent publications include The Occult World (2014, ed.,), The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred and the Profane (2013), Dub in Babylon (2010), and Holy Terror: Understanding Religion and Violence in Popular Culture (2010, ed.,). He is co-editor of Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music.

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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death offers a sustained examination of how contemporary popular music gives room for listeners to meaningfully negotiate the sometimes contradictory implications of modernity’s denial of an afterlife.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Mortality and Immortality2. Death and the Sacred 3. The Undead and the Uncanny4. Morbidity, Violence, and Suicide5. Transfiguration, Devotion and Immortality