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      Paganism and Popular Music

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      Pop Pagans book

      Paganism and Popular Music
      ByDonna Weston, Andy Bennett
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 1 November 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315729688
      Pages 288
      eBook ISBN 9781315729688
      Subjects Humanities
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      Weston, D., & Bennett, A. (2013). Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315729688

      ABSTRACT

      Paganism 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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Towards a denition of Pagan music

      ByDonna Weston, Andy Bennett

      chapter 2|11 pages

      Paganism and the counter-culture

      ByAndy Bennett

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Paganism, popular music and Stonehenge

      chapter 4|15 pages

      Rememberings of a Pagan past: popular music and sacred place

      ByDonna Weston

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Pagan metal

      ByDeena Weinstein

      chapter 6|15 pages

      The darker shade of Pagan: the emergence of Goth

      ByJason Pitzl-Waters

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Paganism and the British folk revival

      ByAndy Letcher

      chapter 8|16 pages

      Dancing Paganism: music, dance and Pagan identity

      ByDouglas Ezzy

      chapter 9|19 pages

      Total solar eclipse festivals, cosmic pilgrims and planetary culture

      ByGraham St John

      chapter 10|17 pages

      Techno-shamanism and the economy of ecstasy as a religious experience

      ByAlan Nixon, Adam Possamai

      chapter 11|14 pages

      Sacramental song: theological imagination in the religious music of American Pagans

      ByChristopher Chase

      chapter 12|13 pages

      e rise of the Celtic cyber-diaspora: the inuence of the “New Age” on internet Pagan communities and the dissemination of “Celtic” music

      ByNarelle McCoy

      chapter 13|24 pages

      Esoterrorism and the wrecking of civilization: Genesis P-Orridge and the rise of industrial Paganism

      ByChristopher Partridge
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