Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music
- Author: Gilmour, Michael J.
What do Salman Rushdie and literary criticism have to do with rock music? For Gilmour (Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music), these things are very much related. The author... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction: Spirituality in Post-1960s Lyrics
- Track 1: Religion on Record: Popular Music's Anxiety of Influence
- Track 2: Church in a Guitar Case: Comfort and Compassion in Popular Music
- Track 3: Outrageous Religion: Sex, Defiance, and Obsession with the Sacred
- Track 4: Looking Beyond the Steeple and Menorah
- Track 5: Fade Out: Stealing from the Sacred and Rewriting Religion