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The Popular and the Sacred in Music [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Music, as the form of art whose name derives from ancient myths, is often thought of as pure symbolic expression and associated with transcendence. Music is also a universal phenomenon and thus a profound marker of humanity.
Kärjä, Antti-Ville
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Are Spiritual Experiences through Music Seen as Intrinsic or Extrinsic?

open access: yesReligions, 2014
Music has a great capacity to afford spiritual experiences, but are those experiences intrinsic or extrinsic to the music? This paper reports the results of research aimed at answering that research question.
Peter Atkins, Emery Schubert
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Pop stars and idolatry: an investigation of the worship of popular music icons, and the music and cult of Prince. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Prince is an artist who integrates elements from the sacred into his work. He uses popular iconography to present himself as an icon of consumer culture, as a deified ‘rock god’ worshipped by his fans, and as a preacher leading his audience like a ...
Rupert Till, Till, Rupert
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Shared Religious Soundscapes: Indian Rāga Music in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Devotion in South Asia

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Music has played a central role in Indian religious experience for millennia. The origins of Indian music include the recitation of the sacred syllable OM and Sanskrit Mantras in ancient Vedic fire sacrifices.
Guy L. Beck
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Turkish Religious Music in the Funeral Ceremonies of Sufi Orders

open access: yesReligions
In the history of Turkish-Islamic culture, every stage of human life—from birth to death—has been ritualized with profound symbolic and spiritual meanings.
Mustafa DEMİRCİ
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Christian rock concerts as a meeting between religion and popular culture

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2003
Different forms of artistic expression play a vital role in religious practices of the most diverse traditions. One very important such expression is music. This paper deals with a contemporary form of religious music, Christian rock.
Andreas Häger
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Contemporary Christian radio in Britain: A new genre on the national dial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Only in the second decade of the twenty-first century has contemporary Christian radio appeared as a new genre in Britain, unlike the United States where it has long been a significant format.
Macaulay, Kirsty   +3 more
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Mediating Role of Religious Attitude on The Relationship Between Personality and Music Preferences

open access: yesDarulfunun Ilahiyat
This study examines the role of religious attitude on the relationship between personality and music preferences. A quantitative research design is chosen, and the correlational model is applied.
Ayşe Kaya Göktepe
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THE CULTURAL LOGIC AND RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF SHAMAN MUSIC IN KOREA AND CHINA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica
As a universal music form in the world, shamanic music not only retains its religious (divine) nature in the historical construction but also shows different national characteristics with the embedding of specific cultural scene patterns.
Fanchang MIAO, Johee LEE
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