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100 1 _aPartridge, Christopher H.
_q(Christopher Hugh),
_d1961-
245 1 4 _aThe lyre of Orpheus :
_bpopular music, the sacred, and the profane /
_cChristopher Partridge.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2014.
300 _aix, 356 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references ( pages 291-324), discography (pages 325-335) and index.
505 0 _aSociety and culture -- Emotion and meaning -- Transgression -- Romanticism -- Religion.
520 _a"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 music's 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."--Back cover.
650 0 _aPopular music
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aMusic
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
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