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1	Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Me There: Its Effects Upon Individual and Communal Religious Experience Wood, Matthew 14 November 2013 (has links) From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Music Culture Religion Anthropology Sociology Auto-Ethnography Memoir Thesis Awesome Turner Peak Experience Absorption Theory Communitas punk rock Indie Ernest Becker Bruce Springsteen GG Allin Religious Experience Rock 'n' Roll Rock n Roll Csordas Brahinsky Luhrmann
2	Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Me There: Its Effects Upon Individual and Communal Religious Experience Wood, Matthew January 2013 (has links) From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Music Culture Religion Anthropology Sociology Auto-Ethnography Memoir Thesis Awesome Turner Peak Experience Absorption Theory Communitas punk rock Indie Ernest Becker Bruce Springsteen GG Allin Religious Experience Rock 'n' Roll Rock n Roll Csordas Brahinsky Luhrmann

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Me There: Its Effects Upon Individual and Communal Religious Experience

Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Me There: Its Effects Upon Individual and Communal Religious Experience