| The Rosary and the Microphone: Religious Impulse in U2's Mediated Brand Contributor(s): Greco, Nicholas P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781795541 ISBN-13: 9781781795545 Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| LCCN: 2018052165 |
| Series: Studies in Popular Music |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation in a global context and for a global audience. Through the primarily semiotic study of U2's various mediations, this book maps the band's strategies for negotiating its place in the world as a global band--and mediated brand--and as a proponent of a kind of cosmopolitanism, or global care. U2's brand is heavily informed by Bono's own personal religious formation. This religious viewpoint is expressed in a global concern--a Christian cosmopolitanism--that looks outward and draws others to do the same. |