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Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music

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Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music

Though American attitudes toward religion changed dramatically during the 1960s, interest in spirituality itself never diminished. If we listen closely, Michael Gilmour contends, we can hear an extensive religious vocabulary in the popular music of the decades that followedarticulating each generations spiritual quest, a yearning for social justice, and the emotional highs of love and sex.
Probing the lyrical canons of seminal artists including Cat Stevens, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, U2, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Madonna, and Kanye West, Gilmour considers the ways--and reasons why--pop music's secular poets and prophets adopted religious phrases, motifs, and sacred texts.
Country USA
Brand Baylor University Press
Manufacturer Baylor University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2009-10-27
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781602581395

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