Gods and guitars
Subtitle: seeking the sacred in post-1960s popular music
By: Michael J. Gilmour.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781602581395
Subjects: Popular music -- Religious aspects
Description: "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 way - and reasons why - pop music's secular poets and prophets adopted religious phrases, motifs, and sacred texts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Spirituality in post-1960s lyrics; title: Religion on record; title: Popular music's anxiety of influence; title: Church in a guitar case; title: Comfort and compassion in popular music; title: Outrageous religion; title: Sex, defiance, and obsession with the sacred; title: Looking beyond the steeple and menorah; title: Fade out; title: Stealing from the sacred and rewriting religion.