| Description |
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244), discography (pages 245-257), and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: I want to take you higher -- Introduction: Cleaning windows: Restlessness, records, and transcendence -- Mystics: Contemplatives, Sensualists, and Empaths -- Dwellers on the threshold: Van Morrison, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and P.M. Dawn -- Sexual healing, or something like sanctified: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Madonna, and PJ Harvey -- My love I bring: Sinead O'Connor, Buddy and Julie Miller, and Moby -- Naysayers: Dystopians and "idiots" -- The great wrong place in which we live: Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Joy Division, and New Order -- License to ill: The Stooges, the Sex Pistols, PiL, and Eminem -- Prophets: Voices of Uplift, Resistance, and Possibility -- Keep on pushing: Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, and U2 -- Fight the power: Spearhead, the Mekons, and Public Enemy -- Dance to the music: Sly & the Family Stone, Bikini Kill, Liberation Rock, Sleater-Kinney, and Le Tigre -- Epilogue: Hungry heart Bruce Springsteen. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Transcendence (Philosophy)
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Transcendence (Philosophy) |
| ISBN |
0826417000 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780826417008 |
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