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...Jim Curtis Curtis , Jim . Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954–1984 . Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press , 1987 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boolelleriews 63 ence" (60). The "real" in contemporary cultures...

... could be corroborated by many other utterances of musicians or music lovers. Indeed, the real knowing is in the playing-or in the listening. But is this an ominous motto for a scientific attempt at understanding the relationship between rock music and religion? I do not think so. Above all, this motto...

...Alton B. Pollard, III Religion, Rock, and Eroticism' by Alton B. Pollard, III The existentialist philosopher and student of religion Soren Kierkegaard provides us with some initial insight into our subject matter. The following passage is taken from his volume entitled Either/Or: "The most...

... udown go crazy punch a higher floor Let's go crazy. Let's get nuts.4 We all know that the Prince, Prince Rogers Nelson, has come. And so has his contemporary rock court-The Revolution, The Jets, Jesse Johnson, Alexander O'Neal, Andre Cymone, The Family, Sheila E., Morris Day and a host of others. From...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 lntrodudion During the forties "rhythm and blues" was a name that came to symbolize Afro-America; renaming it "rock 'n' roll" in the fifties was nothing but a marketing ploy by the white musical industry to steal and conceal black music...

... experience and act upon music, and the studies became especially important for reassessing popular music. To the present day, researchers prefer to examine the consumption of rock and pop music by young people rather than to examine other fields of popular music. Meanwhile, the Adorno wounds seem...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Overview of American Popular Music in a Theological Perspective Jon Michael Spencer Blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and rap are among the American-born music forms that have had a vast impact on the musical cultures...

...Mary L. Tate; Mary F. L. Keith Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 69 The Church of the Living God 1 Built on the Rock, without spot or wrinkle, In the Church of the Living God; Born of the Spirit, filled with His glory, 'Tis the way the Apostles trod. 2 Built on the Rock...

... I'll jine de band. 8. Line with rhythmic interjections: a. I'm gwine to Alabamy, oh! b. Oh! rock me Julie, oh! c. Read de sign o' de jedgment, aye! d. Dis ol' hammer, hanh, Kill John Henry, hanh. 9. Lines and humming alternately: Sinner ain't yo' tired o' sinnin'? Hm-m-m (long) Sinner ain't yo' tired o...

... born to intelligent, forward-looking parents, as well as to the fact that Little Rock, where I grew up, was considered by many of us to be an enlightened community in the South. This was true to such an exent that in later years, when the city's name was splashed over headlines the length and breadth...

.... Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987. "Popular music always has an audience," Jim Curtis prefaces his book. "That is why it is called 'popular'" (2). Within that alwaysaudience, the theomusicologist would...

... It Was de Blood:' 228 "I Never Intend to Die in Egypt Land," 123-25 "I Saw de Lighthouse," 329-30 "I Stand an' Fol' My Arms:' 292-93 "I Want Jesus to Rock Me to Sleep," us "I Want My Name," 329 "I'll Never Tum Back No More," 232 "I'll Wait for Sundown:' 262-63 "I'm a Pilgrim:' 183 "I'm Go' Live So God Can...

...; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born! -William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming (1921) Mark Harvey is a lecturer in the Department of Music at the Massuchusetts...

... follows the evolution of rhythm and blues during the forties through the birth of its several offspring-rock and roll in the fifties, soul in the sixties, funk and disco in the seventies, and rap in the eighties. He attributes the death of rhythm and blues during the last half of the seventies to "disco...

... rhetorical trends within the hip-hop movement-the cultural context surrounding the creation of rap music: (1) a boogie-woogie hip-hop wave, (2) a rock 'n' roll hip-hop wave, and (3) a hard-core hiphop wave. Rap Music and tbe Boogie-Woogie Hip-Hop Wave Rap music began in the mid-seventies, in the South Bronx...

... of the American public at present). The opening paragraphs of the news release read: People who are familiar with some of the lyrics of songs by rock star Prince or have watched his sexually explicit gyrating on stage might be surprised to hear that a Duke Divinity School scholar views the popular singer...

... in Revolt, trans. Anthony Bower. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Cox, Harvey. The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theo- logical Perspective. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Curtis, Jim. Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, I954-I984 . Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State...

...: Harper & Row, 1972. Cox, Harvey. The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Per- spective. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Curtis, Jim. Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Press, 1987. Czitrom, Daniel. Media...

...Andrew M. Greeley Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Like a Catholic: Madonna's Challenge to Her Church Andrew M. Greeley I am not sure whether a discussion of the serious implications of the Madonna rock music video "Like a Prayer" is possible in the contemporary climate...

...Andrew M. Greeley Greeley , Andrew M. God in Popular Culture . Chicago : Thomas More Press , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 T6 BlodcSoeredMush rock and roll is particularly informative: "Blacks create and then move on. Whites document and then recycle...