Hidden in Music: Religious Experience and Pop Festivals

Can pop festivals offer young people opportunities to experience transcendental ideas, resulting in religiosity? The research proposed in this article joins current debates about pop music as a substitute for institutional forms of religion which are supposed to be vanishing. This article offers a c...

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Published in:Journal of religion and popular culture
Main Author: Kommers, Heleen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2011]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Further subjects:B Ethnography
B Popular Music
B rock festivals
B Religion
B youth culture
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Summary:Can pop festivals offer young people opportunities to experience transcendental ideas, resulting in religiosity? The research proposed in this article joins current debates about pop music as a substitute for institutional forms of religion which are supposed to be vanishing. This article offers a critical reflection on some well-established approaches like large-scale quantitative studies and those focusing on cultural change. It contains a plea for qualitative research: so-called multi-sited fieldwork, stressing participant observation. The article is of a programmatic, reflective character. The research starts from the perspective of young people, following the Malinowskian dictum: to discover their vision of their world.
ISSN:1703-289X
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.23.1.14