| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 222 pages). |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Radical theologies
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Radical theologies.
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| Summary |
Radical theology was and is a theology at home in the sweaty, profane world of rock 'n' roll. Both, when done properly, raise ever-urgent issues of existence and meaning, of taking the canon and rupturing it anew, re-making its resources against itself into a radical configuration with the here and now humanity finds itself in. These essays, combining a varying obsession with theology and music that focuses on their complex relationships, are written by some of those who have experienced, heard, and seen 'a sight and sound' of radical theology. Provocative and personal, these scholars write about the everyday from a theologically-informed position, expressing what radical theologies might sound like in the twenty-first century. Radical theology and rock 'n' roll offer a unique type of counter-narrative, which cries of deep value in a world of kitsch and cheap sentiment that aches for meaning in an easily-opiated world. This theology and rock of the post-war pop-music generation seeks to remake its traditions and possibilities to challenge its readers and listeners ever-fresh. It is in the sonic bibles of rock 'n' roll that the mundane, rebellious, and blasphemous are found full of Kierkegaardian fear and trembling. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Sonic bibles and the closing of the canon : the sounds of secular, mundane transcendence? / Mike Grimshaw -- My affair with Ian / Jennifer K. Otter -- In the colony with Joy Division / Clayton Crockett -- Sonic stigmatas : toward a new fear and trembling / Sophie Fuggle -- Improvisation and divine creation : a riff on John Coltrane's A love supreme / Sam Laurent -- Protocols of surrender : stammering along the gothic line / Joshua Ramey -- Louis Armstrong : a rhapsody on repetition and time / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- I know my war from here : walking the Hutterite mile with David Eugene Edwards / Eric Repphun -- Meeting God in the sound : the seductive dimension of U2's future hymns / Deane Galbraith -- Praying the Confiteor at Westminster Abbey : four-on-the-floor apocalypse / Christopher D. Rodkey -- Nick Cave and death / Roland Boer -- Combine dry ingredients, mix well : constituting worlds through mix-tapes and maxi-mites / Chris Nichol -- Why Kanye West gets it wrong : it's not "Jesus walks" but "Christ who is glimpsed" ... (or how to think theologically in the modern city) / Mike Grimshaw -- Stop, think, stop / Daniel Coluccielo Barber. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Religious aspects.
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Popular music -- Religious aspects. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Grimshaw, Mike, 1967- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Counter-narratives of radical theology and popular music. First edition 9781137394132 (DLC) 2013045272 (OCoLC)870285614 |
| ISBN |
9781137394118 (electronic book) |
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1137394110 (electronic book) |
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9781137394132 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137394118 |
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