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The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures. He shows how popular musics power to move, to agitate, to control listeners, to shape their identities, and to structure their everyday lives is central to constructions of the sacred and the profane. In particular, he argues that popular music can be important edgework, challenging dominant constructions of the sacred in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of musicians and musical genres, as well as a number of theoretical approaches from critical musicology, cultural theory, sociology, theology, and the study of religion, The Lyre of Orpheus reveals the significance and the progressive potential of popular music.
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Transformable Race is immensely valuable for its detailed close readings of varied texts from the early American canon, as well as for its passionate insistence that the idea of race as an immutable biological trait has not always been with usand need not always remain. (Margot Minardi, The Journal of American History)
The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, & the Profane (2013) is an enlightening study of the relationship between popular music and, the sacred and the profane. (Rina Arya, Oxford University Press Journals: Literature and Theology)
An amazing wealth of information about religion and popular music. (First Things)
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Christopher Partridge is Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.
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- PublisherOUP USA
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0199751390
- ISBN 13 9780199751396
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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