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U2 and the religious impulse : take me higher / edited by Scott Calhoun ; foreword by W. David O. Taylor.

Contributor(s): Calhoun, Scott D [editor.] | Taylor, W. David O, 1972- [writer of foreword.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music: Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018Description: xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501332395; 1501332392Subject(s): U2 (Musical group) | Rock music -- Religious aspectsLOC classification: ML421.U2 | U14 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword: Bono as the religious Everyman / W. David O. Taylor -- Introduction: U2's sacrament of sound / Scott Calhoun -- Part I. Meet me in the sound: "Edge, ring those bells" : the guitar and its spiritual soundscapes in early U2 / Henrik Marstal -- "Looking to fill that God-shaped hole" : the evolution of U2's spiritually evocative musical gestures / Christopher Endrinal -- Divine moves : pneumatology as passionate participation in U2's "Mysterious ways" / Steve Taylor -- Part II. Lift me out of those blues: "Hold on to love" : U2's bespoke exorcism of the 1960s / Nicola Allen and Gerry Carlin -- Sarajevo and the PopMart lemon : the fractured form and function of U2's walk through the valley of the shadow of death / Richard S. Briggs -- "You carried the cross of my shame" : from crippling stigma to infectious joy in the songs of U2 / Mark Meynell -- Part III. Escape yourself, and gravity: The technological reach for the sublime on U2's 360° tour / Kimi Kärki -- The "moment of surrender" : medieval mysticism in the music of U2 / Brenda Gardenour Walter -- "In God's country" : spatial sacredness in U2 / Michael R. MacLeod and Timothy Harvie -- Part IV. You give me something I can feel: "You don't see me but you will" : Jewish thought and U2 / Naomi Dinnen -- "Like faith needs a doubt" : U2 and the theist/nontheist dialogue / Angela Pancella -- Finding what they're looking for : evangelical teen fans and their desire for U2 to be a Christian band / Neil R. Coulter -- U2 and the art of being human / Mark Peters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Bono as the religious Everyman / W. David O. Taylor -- Introduction: U2's sacrament of sound / Scott Calhoun -- Part I. Meet me in the sound: "Edge, ring those bells" : the guitar and its spiritual soundscapes in early U2 / Henrik Marstal -- "Looking to fill that God-shaped hole" : the evolution of U2's spiritually evocative musical gestures / Christopher Endrinal -- Divine moves : pneumatology as passionate participation in U2's "Mysterious ways" / Steve Taylor -- Part II. Lift me out of those blues: "Hold on to love" : U2's bespoke exorcism of the 1960s / Nicola Allen and Gerry Carlin -- Sarajevo and the PopMart lemon : the fractured form and function of U2's walk through the valley of the shadow of death / Richard S. Briggs -- "You carried the cross of my shame" : from crippling stigma to infectious joy in the songs of U2 / Mark Meynell -- Part III. Escape yourself, and gravity: The technological reach for the sublime on U2's 360° tour / Kimi Kärki -- The "moment of surrender" : medieval mysticism in the music of U2 / Brenda Gardenour Walter -- "In God's country" : spatial sacredness in U2 / Michael R. MacLeod and Timothy Harvie -- Part IV. You give me something I can feel: "You don't see me but you will" : Jewish thought and U2 / Naomi Dinnen -- "Like faith needs a doubt" : U2 and the theist/nontheist dialogue / Angela Pancella -- Finding what they're looking for : evangelical teen fans and their desire for U2 to be a Christian band / Neil R. Coulter -- U2 and the art of being human / Mark Peters.

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