Mortality and music: popular music and the awareness of death
"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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Bloomsbury
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | Paperback edition |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pop music
/ Death
/ Philosophy of music
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| Further subjects: | B
Popular Music
History and criticism
B Death in music |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781472526809 Erscheint auch als: 9781472527202 |
| Summary: | "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 1. Mortality and immortality -- The obscuring of death and decay -- Immortality and the denial of death -- Words against death -- Strategies of immortalization -- 2. Death and the sacred -- The sacred, the profane, transgression and death -- Liminality and pissing people off -- Death and subcultural capital -- Death chic, youth culture and the romanticization of mortality -- The impure sacred -- 3. The undead and the uncanny -- Mortality and the uncanny -- MUsic and uncanny affective space -- Memory and memento mori -- Hauntology, spirit voices and exorcisms -- Can the world be as sad as it seems? -- Grotesque bodies -- 4. Morbidity, violence, and suicide -- A vortex of summons and repulsion -- Thanatos, survival and schadenfreude -- Suicidal tendencies -- Disaffection, violence and death -- The pornography of gore, violence and death -- Living on death row -- 5. Transfiguration, devotion and immortality -- A note on myth -- Transcendence and transfiguration -- Recorded immortality -- Pilgrims and dead rock stars -- Kinetic rituals |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 187-210 "First published 2015" |
| Physical Description: | viii, 222 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-350-02689-6 978-1-4725-3451-4 |
