Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

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 a...

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Main Author: Partridge, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2015
In:Year: 2015
Series/Journal:Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music
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505 8 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Mortality and Immortality; The obscuring of death and decay; Immortality and the denial of death; Words against death; Strategies of immortalization; Concluding comments; 2 Death, Transgression 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; Concluding comments; 3 The Undead and the Uncanny; Mortality and the uncanny; Music and uncanny affective space; Memory and memento mori 
505 8 0 |a Hauntology, spirit voices and exorcismsCan the world be as sad as it seems?; Grotesque bodies; Concluding comments; 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; Concluding comments; 5 Transfiguration, Devotion and Immortality; A note on myth; Transcendence and transfiguration; Recorded immortality; Pilgrims and dead rock stars; Kinetic rituals; Concluding comments; Notes; Bibliography; Index 
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