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World Music Pedagogy Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education

World Music Pedagogy Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education

World Music Pedagogy Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education provides the perspectives and resources to help music educators craft world-inclusive instrumental music programs in their teaching practices. Given that school instrumental music programs—concert bands symphony orchestras and related ensembles—have borne musical traditions that broadly reflect Western art music and military bands instructors are often educated within the European conservatory framework. Yet a culturally diverse and inclusive music pedagogy can enrich expand and transform these instrumental music programs to great effect. Drawing from years of experience as practicing music educators and band and orchestra leaders the authors present a vision characterized by both real-world applicability and a great depth of perspective. Lesson plans rehearsal strategies and vignettes from practicing teachers constitute valuable resources. With carefully tuned ears to intellectual currents throughout the broader music education community World Music Pedagogy Volume IV provides readers with practical approaches and strategies for creating world-inclusive instrumental music programs.

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What is Music Literacy?

What is Music Literacy?

What is Music Literacy? attempts to redefine music literacy with a more expansive meaning than is commonly in use and to articulate the potential impact of these ideas on music teaching practice. The notion of music literacy has involved the ability to read and write music scores. However this understanding does not extend theory to identify all music texts nor to offer a thorough treatment of what impact an expanded notion of music literacy might have on music instruction in the classroom and in ensembles. This book provides a formal expansive redefinition of music literacy. The author offers practical ideas for attending more effectively to music literacy in classroom instruction. The book highlights common elements in the music classroom: the music score the conductor surrounding ensemble members the musical model the musical instrument and presentations/recordings. It also describes four orientations that correspond to the National Core Music Standards (2014) and that characterize humans’ interactions with music: creator performer responder and connector. What is Music Literacy? uses these orientations along with a focus on authentic music texts and literacies to present literacy-based guidelines for music education along with numerous vignettes that describe actual literacy instructional events. | What is Music Literacy?

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Music Education for Social Change Constructing an Activist Music Education

Music Education for Social Change Constructing an Activist Music Education

Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression. Based on the interviews of 20 activist-musicians across the United States and Canada the book explores the common themes perceptions and philosophies among them positioning these activist-musicians as catalysts for change in music education while raising the question: amidst racism and violence targeted at people who embody difference how can music education contribute to changing the social climate? Music has long played a role in activism and resistance. By drawing upon this rich tradition educators can position activist music education as part of a long-term response to events as a crucial initiative to respond to ongoing oppression and as an opportunity for youth to develop collective expressive and critical thinking skills. This emergent activist music education—like activism pushing toward social change—focuses on bringing people together expressing experiences and identifying (and challenging) oppressions. Grounded in practice with examples integrated throughout the text Music Education for Social Change is an imperative and urgent consideration of what may be possible through music and music education. | Music Education for Social Change Constructing an Activist Music Education

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Interpreting Music Video Popular Music in the Post-MTV Era

Interpreting Music Video Popular Music in the Post-MTV Era

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical visual and sociological aspects of music videos enabling them to critically analyze a multimedia form with a central place in popular culture. With highly relevant examples drawn from recent music videos across many different genres this concise and accessible book brings together tools from musical analysis film and media studies gender and sexuality studies and critical race studies requiring no previous knowledge. Exploring the multiple dimensions of music videos this book is the perfect introduction to critical analysis for music media studies communications and popular culture. | Interpreting Music Video Popular Music in the Post-MTV Era

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World Music Pedagogy Volume II: Elementary Music Education

World Music Pedagogy Volume II: Elementary Music Education

World Music Pedagogy Volume II: Elementary Music Education delves into the theory and practices of World Music Pedagogy with children in grades 1-6 (ages 6-12). It specifically addresses how World Music Pedagogy applies to the characteristic learning needs of elementary school children: this stage of a child’s development—when minds are opening up to broader perspectives on the world—presents opportunities to develop meaningful multicultural understanding alongside musical knowledge and skills that can last a lifetime. This book is not simply a collection of case studies but rather one that offers theory and practical ideas for teaching world music to children. Classroom scenarios along with teaching and learning experiences are presented within the frame of World Music Pedagogy. Ethnomusicological issues of authenticity representation and context are addressed and illustrated supporting the ultimate goal of helping children better understand their world through music.

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Music and Empathy

Music and Empathy

In recent years empathy has received considerable research attention as a means of understanding a range of psychological phenomena and it is fast drawing attention within the fields of music psychology and music education. This volume seeks to promote and stimulate further research in music and empathy with contributions from many of the leading scholars in the fields of music psychology neuroscience music philosophy and education. It exposes current developmental cognitive social and philosophical perspectives on research in music and empathy and considers the notion in relation to our engagement with different types of music and media. Following a Prologue the volume presents twelve chapters organised into two main areas of enquiry. The first section entitled 'Empathy and Musical Engagement' explores empathy in music education and therapy settings and provides social cognitive and philosophical perspectives about empathy in relation to our interaction with music. The second section entitled 'Empathy in Performing Together' provides insights into the role of empathy across non-Western classical jazz and popular performance domains. This book will be of interest to music educators musicologists performers and practitioners as well as scholars from other disciplines with an interest in empathy research.

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Ubiquitous Music Ecologies

Ubiquitous Music Ecologies

Ubiquitous music is an interdisciplinary area of research that lies at the intersection of music and computer science. Initially evolving from the related concept of ubiquitous computing today ubiquitous music offers a paradigm for understanding how the everyday presence of computers has led to highly diverse music practices. As we move from desktop computers to mobile and internet-based multi-platform systems new ways to participate in creative musical activities have radically changed the cultural and social landscape of music composition and performance. This volume explores how these new systems interact and how they may transform our musical experiences. Emerging out of the work of the Ubiquitous Music Group an international research network established in 2007 this volume provides a snapshot of the ecologically grounded perspectives on ubiquitous music that share the concept of ecosystem as a central theme. Covering theory software and hardware design and applications in educational and artistic settings each chapter features in-depth descriptions of exploratory and cutting-edge creative practices that expand our understanding of music making by means of digital and analogue technologies. | Ubiquitous Music Ecologies

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Music Teachers' Values and Beliefs

Music Teachers' Values and Beliefs

In Music Teachers' Values and Beliefs Dwyer investigates the relationships between teachers learners and music in music classrooms. Using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa as an interpretive lens the book explores the values and beliefs of four music teachers depicted in richly detailed narratives. The narratives are contextualised through the examination of traditions of music and contemporary approaches. In the past music education has been shaped by elitist tendencies regarding the types of music worthy of study the ways in which music should be learnt and the purpose of such learning. Contemporary approaches to music education have enacted significant change in some regions and systems while others have been slower to leave behind deeply entrenched values beliefs and practices. These approaches have been blamed for low rates of participation and engagement in school music education despite the fact that the majority of young people listen to and enjoy music outside of school. This innovative book provides music education researchers and practitioners with a new understanding of the impact of teachers' personal values beliefs and experiences of music and music education on classroom practice and the impact this has on students' experiences of music education.

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Digital Music Distribution The Sociology of Online Music Streams

Digital Music Distribution The Sociology of Online Music Streams

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it. Digital Music Distribution aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive perception of ‘piracy wars’ to offer a broader and richer understanding of the paradoxes inherent in new forms of distribution. Covering both production and consumption perspectives Spilker analyses the changes and regulatory issues through original case studies looking at how digital music distribution has both changed and been changed by the cultural practices and politicking of ordinary youth their parents music counter cultures artists and bands record companies technology developers mass media and regulatory authorities. Exploring the fundamental change in distribution Spilker investigates paradoxes such as:The criminalization of file-sharing leading not to conflicts but to increased collaboration between youths and their parents;Why the circulation of cultural content extremely damaging for its producers has instead been advantageous for the manufacturers of recording equipment;Why more artists are recording in professional sound studios despite the proliferation of good quality equipment for home recording;Why mass media hit by many of the same challenges as the music industry has been so critical of the way it has tackled these challenges. A rare and timely volume looking at the changes induced by the digitalization of music distribution Digital Music Distribution will appeal to undergraduate students and policy makers interested in fields such as Media Studies Digital Media Music Business Sociology and Cultural Studies. | Digital Music Distribution The Sociology of Online Music Streams

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Music Education Navigating the Future

Music Education Navigating the Future

Education involving music is a multifaceted and ever-altering challenge. As new media technologies and pedagogies are developed academics and practitioners must make sure that they are aware of current trends and where they might lead. This book features studies on the future of music education from emerging scholars in the field. These studies are then supplemented by commentaries from established leaders of the music education community. Music Education covers topics such as music and leisure new forms of media in music teaching and learning the role of technology in music learning popular music tuition in the expansion of curricular offering and assessment of music education research. As such it is an excellent reference for scholars and teachers as well as guide to the future of the discipline. | Music Education Navigating the Future

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Music Psychoanalysis Musicology

Music Psychoanalysis Musicology

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field as well as emerging voices this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of a range of musics—from the romantic and the modernist to the contemporary popular. Drawing on the work of Freud Lacan Jung Žižek Barthes and others it demonstrates the efficacy of psychoanalytic theories in fields such as music analysis music and culture and musical improvisation. It engages debates about both the methods through which music is understood and the situations in which it is experienced including those of performance and listening. This collection is an invaluable resource for students lecturers researchers and anyone else interested in the intersections between music psychoanalysis and musicology. | Music�Psychoanalysis�Musicology

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Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music! Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of movement music. That is to say much of classic Motown soul and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values as well as the aspirations and frustrations of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music! is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular culture and Black political culture both before and after the Black Power Movement and the ways in which the Black Power Movement in many senses symbolizes the culmination of centuries of African American politics creatively combined with and ingeniously conveyed through African American music. Consequently the term Black Power music can be seen as a code word for African American protest songs and message music between 1965 and 1975. Black Power music is a new concept that captures and conveys the fact that the majority of the messages in Black popular music between 1965 and 1975 seem to have been missed by most people who were not actively involved in or in some significant way associated with the Black Power Movement. | Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

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Milestones in Music Education

Milestones in Music Education

In ten concise chapters Milestones in Music Education introduces the key developments and issues that have shaped the field of music education. Designed for undergraduate students each chapter of the book is written by a different expert bringing together many leading voices in the field. The ten chosen milestones represent breakthroughs in the field of music education that are relevant to today’s educators and enable teachers to understand the issues that have shaped the teaching of music over time. Topics covered include the origins of music education as a school subject the impact of changing technology the roles of popular music and notation and racial justice in the music classroom. Featuring action suggestions and discussion questions in each chapter this accessible book provides students with a foundation in the history and context of music education and prepares them to engage with the social and philosophical aspects of teaching music as forward-thinking educators. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social cultural political and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses in music education.

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Teaching Music Creatively

Teaching Music Creatively

Fully updated in light of the latest research and practice in primary education Teaching Music Creatively offers all teachers a comprehensive understanding of how to develop deliver and enjoy a creative music curriculum. It is inspired by the belief that all those concerned with primary education have a deep interest in creativity and supports teachers in developing the confidence to teach and celebrate creative music teaching throughout school. With groundbreaking contributions from international experts in the field it offers well-tested strategies for developing children’s musical creativity knowledge skills and understanding. This edition includes a brand new chapter on teaching interculturally showing how children can reach their full creative potential and not be constrained by cultural stereotyping. Key topics covered include: ■ Creative teaching and what it means to teach creatively ■ Composition listening and notation ■ Spontaneous music-making ■ Group music and performance ■ The use of multimedia ■ Integration of music into the wider curriculum ■ Musical play ■ Assessment and planning. Teaching Music Creatively is packed with practical innovative ideas for teaching music in a lively and imaginative way together with the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching methods. It is an invaluable resource for all those training to become primary school teachers as well as practicing teachers looking for support and inspiration and undergraduate students of music and education.

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World Music Pedagogy Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education

World Music Pedagogy Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education

World Music Pedagogy Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this series have detailed theoretical and applied principles of World Music Pedagogy within K-12 public schools and broader communities this seventh volume is chiefly concerned with infusing culture-rich musical experiences through world music courses at the tertiary level presenting a compelling argument for the growing need for such perspectives and approaches. These chapters include discussions of the logical trajectories of the framework into world music courses through which the authors seek to challenge the status quo of lecture-only academic courses in some college and university music programs. Unique to this series each of these chapters illustrates practical procedures for incorporating the WMP framework into sample classes. However this volume (like the rest of the series) is not a prescriptive recipe book of lesson plans. Rather it seeks to enrich the conversation surrounding cultural diversity in music through philosophically-rooted social justice-conscious and practice-oriented perspectives.

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Becoming an Outstanding Music Teacher

Becoming an Outstanding Music Teacher

Becoming an Outstanding Music Teacher shows how music teachers can provide a curricular and co-curricular experience to inspire and engage students deliver memorable music lessons and give every child access to great music. Drawing on a decade of education research this book focuses on the three facets of music teaching: performance composition and how to listen understand and explain. This practical book argues that the future of music teaching is best assured by filling classrooms with knowledge and with passion by informing teaching through intentional use of good research and by building effective relationships. Exploring what makes music teachers stand out as well as that which links them with all other teachers this book covers a vital and diverse range of lesson ideas and practical guidance including: Teaching music through composition Making the most of the rehearsal room and directing an ensemble How to make best use of classroom time Setting goals assessment deliberate practice and feedback Mastery in music Encouraging all music teachers to reflect upon and develop their craft this text is essential reading for both newly qualified and experienced music teachers alike.

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The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition

The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition

WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF MUSIC THEORY’S 2019 CITATION OF SPECIAL MERIT FOR MULTI-AUTHORED VOLUMES The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological physiological and physical processes that allow music to take place seeking to explain how and why music has such powerful and mysterious effects on us. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research in music cognition balancing accessibility with depth and sophistication. A diverse range of global scholars—music theorists musicologists pedagogues neuroscientists and psychologists—address the implications of music in everyday life while broadening the range of topics in music cognition research deliberately seeking connections with the kinds of music and musical experiences that are meaningful to the population at large but are often overlooked in the study of music cognition. Such topics include: Music’s impact on physical and emotional health Music cognition in various genres Music cognition in diverse populations including people with amusia and hearing impairment The relationship of music to learning and accomplishment in academics sport and recreation The broader sociological and anthropological uses of music Consisting of over forty essays the volume is organized by five primary themes. The first section Music from the Air to the Brain provides a neuroscientific and theoretical basis for the book. The next three sections are based on musical actions: Hearing and Listening to Music Making and Using Music and Developing Musicality. The closing section Musical Meanings returns to fundamental questions related to music’s meaning and significance seen from historical and contemporary perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition seeks to encourage readers to understand connections between the laboratory and the everyday in their musical lives.

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Music Psychology

Music Psychology

The first edition of Ernst Kurth’s Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931 and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music. Time has hardly diminished Kurth’s standing as an original scholar with a distinctive point of view. Music theorists both in Europe and North America regard him as an important figure in the history of music theory. Daphne Tan and Christoph Neidhöfer’s first full translation provides English-speaking theorists the opportunity to delve deeper into his ideas. Indeed Kurth’s concerns – listening habits and habituation metaphorical language the limits of memory and the role of the body in music experience to name a few – are shared by many in the field today especially scholars who work at the intersections of music theory psychology linguistics and related disciplines. And while Kurth’s approach lacks the scientific rigour of modern-day empirical musicology Musikpsychologie nevertheless presents a source of testable hypotheses for those working in the area of music perception and cognition. This translation of Musikpsychologie also has the potential to inspire a new generation of composers especially through the topics in the second section (energy force space and matter) and given the inherently interdisciplinary nature of this book and the number of philosophical and scientific sources Kurth incorporates it will appeal to those interested in the history of science and particularly in the emergence of psychology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century. | Music Psychology

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Clifford K. Madsen's Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy Love of Learning

Clifford K. Madsen's Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy Love of Learning

Clifford K. Madsen’s Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy: Love of Learning summarizes the life and work of Dr. Clifford Madsen a luminary in music education and author of a dozen books the first recipient of the Senior Researcher Award from the Music Educators National Conference and mentor and teacher to generations of music educators and music therapists. This text presents Madsen’s philosophy career and legacy through an exploration of primary sources and extensive interviews with former students outlining the philosophical tenets Madsen espouses while contextualizing those tenets within his teachings research and service. What began as an exercise to record Madsen’s work for archival purposes resulted in a study of how his philosophy manifested in a significant offering to music educators. Throughout a prolific academic career Dr. Madsen has led Florida State University to a position of preeminence in the fields of music education and music therapy. Yet as detailed here his greatest impact goes beyond lesson plans and syllabi epitomized by a love of learning. As Bob Duke stated What is monumental about Cliff is not what he has written. It is what he has done as a human being for other human beings. | Clifford K. Madsen's Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy Love of Learning

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Machine Learning and Music Generation

Machine Learning and Music Generation

Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation have engaged musicians music scholars and computer scientists since the early days of computing. Music generation research has generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods that model style through explicitly formalized rules and data mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting recurring research issues such as training data music representation candidate generation and evaluation. The contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating music including melody chord sequences ornamentation and dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music. | Machine Learning and Music Generation

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Contemporary Music and Spirituality

Contemporary Music and Spirituality

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and Otherness through contemporary music. Contemporary Music and Spirituality provides a detailed exploration of the recent and current state of contemporary spiritual music in its religious musical cultural and conceptual-philosophical aspects. At the heart of the book are issues that consider the role of secularization the claims of modernity concerning the status of art and subjective responses such as faith and experience. The contributors provide a new critical lens through which it is possible to see the music and thought of Cage Ligeti Messiaen Stockhausen as spiritual music. The book surrounds these composers with studies of and by other composers directly associated with the idea of spiritual music (Harvey Gubaidulina MacMillan Pärt Pott and Tavener) and others (Adams Birtwistle Ton de Leeuw Ferneyhough Ustvolskaya and Vivier) who have created original engagements with the idea of spirituality. Contemporary Music and Spirituality is essential reading for humanities scholars and students working in the areas of musicology music theory theology religious studies philosophy of culture and the history of twentieth-century culture.

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Labels Making Independent Music

Labels Making Independent Music

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fact that digitalization made record sales barely profitable. How can those outsiders not only survive but thrive within mass music markets? What makes them meaningful and to whom? Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward show how labels act as taste-makers and scene-markers that not only curate music but project cultural values which challenge the mainstream capitalist music industry. Focusing mostly on labels that entered independent electronic music after 2000 the authors reconstruct their aesthetics and ethics. The book draws on multiple interviews with labels such as Ostgut Ton in Berlin Argot in Chicago 100% Silk in Los Angeles Ninja Tune in London and Goma Gringa in Sao Paulo. Written by the authors of Vinyl this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the contemporary recording industry independent music material culture anthropology sociology and cultural studies. | Labels Making Independent Music

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Music Cognition: The Basics

Music Cognition: The Basics

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Music Cognition: The Basics considers the role of our cognitive functions such as perception memory attention and expectation in perceiving making and appreciating music. In this volume Henkjan Honing explores the active role these functions play in how music makes us feel; exhilarated soothed or inspired. Grounded in the latest research in areas of psychology biology and cognitive neuroscience and with clear examples throughout this book concentrates on underappreciated musical skills such as sense of rhythm beat induction and relative pitch that make people intrinsically musical creatures—supporting the conviction that all humans have a unique instinctive attraction to music. The scope of the topics discussed ranges from the ability of newborns to perceive a beat to the unexpected musical expertise of ordinary listeners. It is a must read for anyone studying the psychology of music auditory perception or simply interested in why we enjoy music the way we do.

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Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella Lau illustrates how electronic dance music is legitimized in evangelical activities by Christians’ discourses and how the discourses challenge the divide between the ‘secular’ and the ‘sacred’ in the Western culture. Unlike other existing books on the relationships between music cultures and religion which predominantly discuss the cultural implications of such phenomenon Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture examines the notion of ‘spirituality’ in contemporary popular electronic dance music. Lau’s emphasis on the sonic qualities of electronic dance music opens the door for future research about the relationships between aural properties of electronic dance music and religious discourses. With three case studies conducted in the cultural hubs of electronic dance music – Bristol Ibiza and New York – the monograph can also be used as a guidebook for ethnographic research in popular music.

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