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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music

Literary CriticismReligion General Pop/Rock

ISBN10: 1350026891
ISBN13: 9781350026896
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 23 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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