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‘Where else did they copy their styles but from church groups?’ Rock and Pentecostalism in the 1950s South [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Church leaders and laypeople in the US went on the defensive shortly after rock and roll became a national youth craze in 1955 and 1956. Few of those religious critics would have been aware or capable of understanding that rock ‘n’ roll, in fact, had ...
Stephens, Randall
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Musical Religiosity

open access: yesTemenos, 2015
In this essay the author explores the thesis that music is by its nature religious, or rather, that it has qualities that correspond well with what religion, in a broad sense, aspires to be.
Martin Hoondert
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"You Need a Big God" : Fascinating Interactions between Music and Religion

open access: yesJournal for Religion, Film and Media, 2020
The interactions between popular music and religion are manyfold and highly complex. Popular music as an important part of popular culture is a means of communication.
Fritz, Natalie   +1 more
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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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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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Religiously (Un)musical, Musically (Un)religious

open access: yesJournal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 2014
The expression “religiously unmusical” has become a catchphrase for many, since it was introduced by Max Weber a century ago. In this paper the question is asked whether the concepts of religiosity and musicality can be used to throw light on each other.
openaire   +1 more source

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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Challenges in cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Understanding and meeting the needs of a broad range of music users across different cultures and languages are central in designing a global music digital library.
Lee, Jin Ha   +5 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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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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