TY - BOOK

T1 - Music and mortality

T2 - popular music and the awareness of death

AU - Partridge, Christopher

PY - 2015/8/27

Y1 - 2015/8/27

N2 - The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mortality-and-music-9781472534514

AB - The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mortality-and-music-9781472534514

KW - Popular Music

KW - Death dying and bereavement

KW - Suicide

KW - Gothic popular culture

KW - Violence

KW - subculture

KW - transgression

KW - sacred

KW - profane

M3 - Book

SN - 9781472534514

T3 - Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music

BT - Music and mortality

PB - Bloomsbury

CY - London

ER -