Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular MusicPaganism is rapidly becoming a religious, creative, and political force internationally. It has found one of its most public expressions in popular music, where it is voiced by singers and musicians across rock, folk, techno, goth, metal, Celtic, world, and pop music. With essays ranging across the US, UK, continental Europe, Australia and Asia, 'Pop Pagans' assesses the histories, genres, performances, and communities of pagan popular music. Over time, paganism became associated with the counter culture, satanic and gothic culture, rave and festival culture, ecological consciousness and spirituality, and new ageism. Paganism has used music to express a powerful and even transgressive force in everyday life. 'Pop Pagans' examines the many artists and movements which have contributed to this growing phenomenon. |
Contents
Paganism popular music and Stonehenge | |
popular music and sacred place | |
the emergence of Goth | |
Paganism and the British folk revival | |
Performance | |
Total solar eclipse festivals cosmic pilgrims and planetary culture | |
Technoshamanism and the economy of ecstasy as a religious experience | |
theological imagination in the religious music | |
the influence of the New Age | |
rise of industrial Paganism | |
Bibliography | |
Discography and filmography | |
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