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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death - Partridge, Christopher
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The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance ...

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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death 2017, Bloomsbury Academic, London

ISBN-13: 9781350026896

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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death 2015, Bloomsbury Academic, London

ISBN-13: 9781472534514

Hardcover