It provides an introduction to the history of the interactions of vernacular music and religion, and the role of music in religious culture. "Pop Cults" investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity. At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and within music culture. This book explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society.
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