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Title The Theology of American popular music / edited by Jon Michael Spencer.

Publication Info. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1989.

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 Talbott: Offsite Storage  ML5 .J68 v.3 no.2 1989  v. 3, no. 2 (1989)    Available  ---
Description xi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Black sacred music : a journal of theomusicology ; v. 3, no. 2
Black sacred music ; v. 3, no. 2.
Note "A special issue of Black sacred music : a journal of theomusicology."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161).
Note Includes index.
Contents Preface / Jon Michael Spencer -- Introduction / John Michael Spencer. I. Philosophical prolegomena to theomusicological thematizing of the nonsacred. II. God in secular music culture -- Improvisation, individuation, and immanence / Hugh J. Roberts -- The theology of Black power and Black song / Earlston E. DeSilva -- The theology of "sexual healing" / Orea Jones -- The prophetic character of Black secular music / Harold Dean Trulear -- The last soul singer in America / Alton B. Pollard -- A postmodern Afro-American secular spirituality / Michael Eric Dyson -- Prophecy, eroticism, and apocalypticism in popular music / Richard E. Wimberley -- Religion, rock, and eroticism / Alton B. Pollard -- Rap, race, and reality / Michael Eric Dyson. -- Conclusion / Jon Michael Spencer.
Subject Music -- United States -- Religious aspects.
Music.
United States.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music.
Popular music -- United States -- Religious aspects.
Popular music.
Rock music -- United States -- Religious aspects.
Rock music.
Added Author Spencer, Jon Michael.