Table of Contents

Introduction: Please to Meet You: Introducing Sacred Popular Cults 1. Lost in Music: Pop Cults and New Religious Movements 2. Let's Talk About Sex: Sex Cults of Popular Music 3. I Want to Take You Higher: Drug Cults of Popular Music 4. We Could Be Heroes: Personality Cults of the Sacred Popular 5. In My Beautiful Neighbourhood: Local Cults of Popular Music 6. Even Better Than The Real Thing: Virtual Cults of Popular Music 7. Hope I Die Before I Get Old: Death Cults of Popular Music 8. God is a DJ: Possession Trance Cults of Electronic Dance 9. Do You Believe in Rock and Roll?: Cults of the Sacred Popular Bibliography Websites and online references Discography Films, Television, DVDs and Videos Acknowledgements Index

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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society.

About the Author

Rupert Till is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Reviews

... the useful concluding chapter gives a wake-up call to a Church that has lost touch with culture, and a well-argued case for how popular music is in part filling its place.
*Church Times*

Till strikes just the right tone, takes a balanced and fascinating approach to his material, and has written an incisive and accessible book on the subject. This book is highly recommended, not just for scholars of music and popular culture, but for undergraduates and casual readers as well.
*Religious Studies Review*