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Studying Religion and Popular Music

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Over the previous decade, the scholarship on religion and popular music has continued to expand and diversify as researchers from a range of disciplines within the arts and social sciences explore its social and cultural significance. This has been an ongoing and increasingly complex task, in that, as with all areas of contemporary popular culture, the landscape is constantly changing. In a similar way to the study of religion per se, the study of its relationship to popular music now includes a range of disciplinary methodologies which are necessary to interrogate the particular social and cultural contexts that have had a formative impact on composition and reception (cultural studies; sociology; ethnomusicology) or artists (auteur theory) or the nature of performance (performance studies) or ideological positions (ideological criticism) or religious commitments (religious studies; theology) or reception by fans (audience reception theory). This chapter provides a general overview of main approaches to the study of the relationship between religion and popular music and outlines the most commonly employed methods in the field. Our intention is primarily to provide scholars new to the field with a set of useful perspectives and tools.

Keywords: auteur theory ; cultural studies ; Ethnomusicology ; ideology ; performance studies ; Religious Studies ; sociology

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