Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2
A Love Story
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5307-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5307-0 (ISBN)
Drawing upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, this book unpacks U2’s long-term success, continued relevance, and popular appeal through the lenses of Agape (spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic love).
U2’s ongoing popular appeal is constructed in the spaces between band and fan, commercialism and community, spirituality and nihilism; finding meaning in a surface-oriented popular culture and contradiction in the depths of political and faith-based institutions. The band’s long-term success and continued relevance is a result of their ability to hold these energies in tension without one subsuming the other—to live in the liminal space that such contradictions invite. U2’s mythic trajectory was born from a bygone electronic era, realized in our current digital era but with an eye on the forthcoming virtual era; it is a new myth for the whole world, found in the most unlikely of places, popular culture. This book approaches the band’s mythic trajectory through a combination of rhetorical analysis and autoethnographic explorations that unveil the more personal experiences most of us have with media. Drawing heavily upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2 unpacks U2’s popular appeal through the lenses of Agape (spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic love).
Check out the book's official website for additional information: https//:www.u2mythos.com
U2’s ongoing popular appeal is constructed in the spaces between band and fan, commercialism and community, spirituality and nihilism; finding meaning in a surface-oriented popular culture and contradiction in the depths of political and faith-based institutions. The band’s long-term success and continued relevance is a result of their ability to hold these energies in tension without one subsuming the other—to live in the liminal space that such contradictions invite. U2’s mythic trajectory was born from a bygone electronic era, realized in our current digital era but with an eye on the forthcoming virtual era; it is a new myth for the whole world, found in the most unlikely of places, popular culture. This book approaches the band’s mythic trajectory through a combination of rhetorical analysis and autoethnographic explorations that unveil the more personal experiences most of us have with media. Drawing heavily upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2 unpacks U2’s popular appeal through the lenses of Agape (spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic love).
Check out the book's official website for additional information: https//:www.u2mythos.com
Brian Johnston is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University. Susan Mackey-Kallis is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Love and Liminality
Part One: Agape
Chapter Three: Archetypal Foundations of the “Holy” Community
Chapter Four: Call to Action
Part Two: Amor
Chapter Five: Into the Labyrinth
Chapter Six: Mythic Trajectory and the Overdeveloped Shadow
Part Three: Eros
Chapter Seven: Into the “Heart”
Chapter Eight: Integration and the Return: “Songs of Innocence + Experience” Tour
Chapter Nine: Love, Liminality, and the Transmodern Rock Star
Bibliography
About the Authors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 336 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-5307-9 / 1498553079 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-5307-0 / 9781498553070 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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