A01=Michael J. Gilmour
Author_Michael J. Gilmour
Cat Stevens
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Clapton
Dylan
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Joni Mitchell
Madonna
music
Neil Young
popular culture
religion
Rolling Stones
sacred
secular
sixties
U2
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- ISBN 9781481314831
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Though American attitudes toward religion changed dramatically during the 1960s, interest in spirituality itself never diminished. If we listen closely, Michael Gilmour contends, we can hear an extensive religious vocabulary in the popular music of the decades that followed—articulating each generation's spiritual quest, a yearning for social justice, and the emotional highs of love and sex.
Probing the lyrical canons of seminal artists including Cat Stevens, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, U2, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Madonna, and Kanye West, Gilmour considers the ways—and reasons why—pop music's secular poets and prophets adopted religious phrases, motifs, and sacred texts.
Michael J. Gilmour is the author of Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music and Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture. He lives in Manitoba, Canada, where he serves on the faculty of Providence College.
