1st Edition
The Lyrics of Civility Biblical Images & Popular Music Lyrics in American Culture
By Kenneth Bielen
Copyright 2000
237 Pages
by
Routledge
217 Pages
by
Routledge
237 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is the first comprehensive scholarly study of religious images in popular music. Examining bestsellers from 1906 to 1971, the work explores the role religious images have in the secularization of American culture. Popular music lyrics that express an adherence to a sacred order are couched in inoffensive, content-less language. These lyrics of civility reflect and shape the increasing... Read more
Chapter One Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long: Biblical Images in Popular Music, 1900–1945; Chapter Two Crying in the Chapel: Post-World War II Popular Music, 1948–1966; Chapter Three I Say a Little Prayer: Images of Supplication in Popular Music; Chapter Four There's a Place Called Heaven: Images of Heaven in Popular Music; Chapter Five Imagine There's No Heaven: Rejection of the Biblical Sacred Order in Popular Music Lyrics; Chapter Six Spirit in the Sky: Spiritual Seekers in the 1970s; Chapter Seven Slow Train Coming: Following the Path of Dylan through the 1980s; Chapter Eight One of Us: Defining Gods in the 1990s;
Biography
Kenneth G. Bielen
