I'll take you there : pop music and the urge for transcendence /
Friskics-Warren, Bill.
New York ; London : Continuum,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244), discography (p. [245]-257), and index.
Prologue: I want to take you higher -- Introduction: Cleaning windows: Restlessness, records, and transcendence -- Mystics: Contemplatives, Sensualists, and Empaths -- Dwellers on the threshold: Van Morrison, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and P.M. Dawn -- Sexual healing, or something like sanctified: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Madonna, and PJ Harvey -- My love I bring: Sinead O'Connor, Buddy and Julie Miller, and Moby -- Naysayers: Dystopians and "idiots" -- The great wrong place in which we live: Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Joy Division, and New Order -- License to ill: The Stooges, the Sex Pistols, PiL, and Eminem -- Prophets: Voices of Uplift, Resistance, and Possibility -- Keep on pushing: Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, and U2 -- Fight the power: Spearhead, the Mekons, and Public Enemy -- Dance to the music: Sly & the Family Stone, Bikini Kill, Liberation Rock, Sleater-Kinney, and Le Tigre -- Epilogue: Hungry heart Bruce Springsteen.
Popular music
Music
Transcendence (Philosophy)