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Paperback Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane Book

ISBN: B00QARX57C

ISBN13: 9780199751402

Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane

The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and symbols,...

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