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The Role of Popular Music in the Construction of Alternative Spiritual Identities and Ideologies
Abstract
Setting its discussion in the wider context of the decline of institutional religion among young adults, the rise of alternative spiritualities, and the mediatization of religion, the article explores the significance of popular music in the development of alternative spiritual identities and ideologies. A summary is given of leading research conducted in this field by Christopher Partridge and Graham St. John. It is argued that they demonstrate the encoding of alternative spiritual symbols and ideologies into certain forms of popular music, they fail to give an adequate account of how audiences actively make use of this music to construct alternative spiritual identities or frameworks of meaning. The article concludes that researchers in the field of religion and popular music need to draw more on theories and methods developed in ethno‐musicology and the sociology of music, and suggests that the work of Tia De Nora on music in everyday life raises important questions about the qualities and context of the act of listening to music that could generate more nuanced accounts of how popular music shapes alternative spiritual identities and ideologies.
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“Popular music, and other forms of popular culture, can function as resources 'in stimulating the rise of alternative spiritual identities and ideologies' (Lynch 2006:482).”
From Sons of Northern Darkness: Heathen Influences in Black Metal and Neofolk Music1 (2011) · cites this paper as Lynch 2006:482
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- Authors
- LYNCH, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- LYNCH, GORDON
- ORCID
- LYNCH, GORDON
- Venue
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-11-22
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 481-488
- ISSN
- 0021-8294 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-5906
- OpenAlex
- W2023510706
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 43.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (publishedVersion)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Music History and Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Keywords
- popular music, alternative spirituality, spiritual identity, religious ideology, young adults, mediatization of religion, music and religion, ethnomusicology, sociology of music, music in everyday life, music listening
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