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The Lyre of Orpheus
Christopher Partridge
其他書名
Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
出版
OUP USA
, 2014
主題
Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Music / Religious / General
Music / Religious / Christian
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies
Religion / General
Religion / Spirituality
RELIGION / Christianity / General
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
0199751404
9780199751402
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qdD0AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.