The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Images
List of Contributors
Introduction
	The study of religion and popular music
	Methodologies
	Critical musicology and the sacred
Part 1 The Study of Religion and Popular Music: Theoretical Perspectives, Methodologies and Issues
	Chapter 1 Ethnography, Popular Music and Religion
		Part 1: Ethnography: Origins and trajectories
		Part 2: ‘Telling it like it is’: Ethnography, popular music and everyday life
		‘This is my truth’: One-to-one interviews
		‘Through a different lens’: Participant and non-participant observation
		‘Of one and many voices’: Focus groups
		‘Across the great divide’: Insider research
		Worlds within worlds: Virtual ethnography
		A work in progress: Limitations of ethnographic research
	Chapter 2 Emotion, Meaning and Popular Music
		The social meaning of popular music
		Intertextuality and the construction of affective space
		Music as a prosthetic technology
		Concluding comments: Music, emotion and religion
	Chapter 3 Music, Religion and Protest
		Demonizing music
		Self-determination
	Chapter 4 Censorship, Religion and Popular Music
		Religion as a moral regulator
		The inherent evil of popular music
		Popular music censorship
		Forms of religious censorship
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5 Feminism, Gender and Popular Music
		Initial considerations
		Gender and the evaluation of popular music
		Aesthetics, rock/pop and the body
		Negotiating Gendered Meanings: Kate Bush and Madonna
Part 2 Religious Perspectives
	Chapter 6 The Bible and Popular Music
		Some kicks of the bass drum: Brief uses of the Bible in popular music
		Three symbol crashes: Sustained uses of the Bible in popular music
		Closing thoughts
	Chapter 7 Theology, Imagination and Popular Music
		What has graceland to do with Jerusalem?
		Post-secular popular music
		The swarming forms of the banal
	Chapter 8 Christianity, Worship and Popular Music
		Part one: Christian attitudes towards (popular) music in worship – a short history
		Part two: Using popular worship music
		Part three: ‘Learning to listen’ to popular worship music
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9 Contemporary Christian Music
		In the beginning
		Baby boom
		Rock ‘n’ roll
		Christian hippies
		The new ‘hip’ language
		Trailblazers
		Production and distribution, and contributions
		Christian festivals
		The changing face of CCM
	Chapter 10 Islam and Popular Music
		Muslim theologians on music
		The philosophers and the Sufis
		Islamic legal scholars
		Popular music in the contemporary Islamic context
		Conclusions
	Chapter 11 Jews, Judaism and Popular Music
		Judaic and Jewish
		What is Jewish music?
		The Jazz Singer
		Jewish-American popular music
		The new Jewish music
		Conclusion
	Chapter 12 Hinduism and Popular Music
		Introduction
		Western popular music: Cultural exchange or cultural appropriation?
		Conclusion
	Chapter 13 Buddhism and Popular Music
		Introduction
		Tibetan Buddhist sacred performing arts
		Western artists and Buddhism
		Conclusion: Buddhist-inflected popular musical styles and context-appropriate sounds
	Chapter 14 Japanese Religion and Popular Music
		Complicating religion in contemporary Japan
		From matsuri (festivals) to Handel’s ‘Messiah’
		Mixed messages in heavy metal, hip hop and ‘Hannya Shingyō’
		Alternative spirituality in psychedelic-trance raves
		Ritual in the underground Tokyo hard-core scene
		Conclusion
	Chapter 15 Chinese Religions and Popular Music
		Overview of Chinese religions
		Popular music in Chinese religions
		Chinese religions in popular music
		Diffused religious ideas in popular music: Mingyun and Yuanfun
		Particular religious philosophies in popular music: Buddhist and Taoist teachings
		In search of Chinese religious elements in pop music
	Chapter 16 Paganism and Popular Music
		What is Paganism?
		What is popular music?
		Methodology
		Websites, blogs and podcasts
		Public perception
		Pagan festivals
		Musical analysis
		Paramusical analysis
		Conclusion
	Chapter 17 Popular Music and the Occult
		The Devil’s music
		Early extreme metal
		Norwegian black metal, Satanism and Heathenism
		Metal and the occult milieu
		Occult rock
		The ritual black metal scene
		Beyond metal: Industrial, post-industrial and neofolk music
		Hip hop and the occult connection
		Conclusion
	Chapter 18 Caribbean Religions and Popular Music
		Haiti
		Dominican Republic
		Cuba
		Jamaica
Part 3 Genres
	Chapter 19 Heavy Metal
		Heavy metal music: Historical development and engagement with religion and religious themes
		Heavy metal music studies and religion
		Concluding remarks
	Chapter 20 Pop and Rock
		Pop
		Rock
		Pop, rock and religion
	Chapter 21 Punk and Hardcore
		Christianity
		Hinduism
		Judaism
		Islam
		Buddhism
		DIY spirituality
		Conclusion
	Chapter 22 Reggae
		The roots of reggae: Afro-Christianity, Rastafari and Millenarianism
		Reggae and biblical Millenarianism
		Chanting down Babylon
		Dub esotericism
		Concluding comments
	Chapter 23 Folk Music
		Folk music and national identity
		Folk music and musical identity
		Folk music and personal identity
		Conclusion
	Chapter 24 Country Music and Religion
		History and authenticity claims
		Religious history and themes
		Case study: Johnny Cash, religion and masculinity
	Chapter 25 Electronic Dance Music: Trance and Techno-Shamanism
		EDM and religion
		Psytrance
		Liminalization in EDM
		Trance and the technoshaman
		Conclusion
	Chapter 26 Blues and Jazz
		Introduction
		Background and contexts
		Discussion
	Chapter 27 Psychedelic Music
		The emergence of psychedelic culture
		Psychedelic spirituality and popular music in the 1960s
		Paganism, occultism and psychedelic folk
		Psychedelic dance and ambient music
		Concluding comments
	Chapter 28 Rap and Hip Hop
		Beginnings and contexts
		Aesthetics and poetics
		Culture and power
	Chapter 29 Goth Music and Subculture
		Goth symbols: Dark angels of sin
		Goth spaces: Multisensory heterotopias
		Goth sounds: Liminal liturgies
		Non/religious occulture between God and the Devil
	Chapter 30 Ambient Music
		Introduction
		The development of ambient music
		Brian Eno and ambient music
		Chill out music
		Ambient music in religion and religion in ambient music
	Chapter 31 Popular Music and the Religious Screen
		Introduction
		Popular music for purpose
		Gospel markers
		Racial markers
		Spatial markers
		Machine Gun Preacher
		Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Filmography
Index