scholarly journals Like a Prophet - On Christian Interpretations of a Madonna Video

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 151-174
Author(s):  
Andreas Häger
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Positive Message ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Discourse ◽  
A Current

Throughout the history of Christianity, its relationship to art has been a complicated one, concerning the use of art in worship as well as the views on "secular" art. This article deals with a current example of the latter. More specifically, the article examines some examples of Christian views on popular music. The best-known reactions to pop and rock music' by Christians are likely to be negative ones, probably because these are usually the most loudly declared. But there is also another aspect to the Christian discourse on popular music. Some Christians try to emphasise what is perceived as a positive message in "secular" rock music. This part of the debate is the main concern in this paper.The examples used deal with one of the most controversial pop artists, Madonna, and one of her most discussed works, the video `Like a Prayer'. Madonna Louise Ciccone, born 1958, has been one of the most successful, most imitated and certainly most talked about popular artists of the past decade. She has — at least to a certain degree quite consciously — stirred up controversy with several of her videos. Raised a Catholic, her use of religious themes and images is one aspect that has caught special attention.

scholarly journals The Parents' Music Resource Center: from information to censorship

Popular Music ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Chastagner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
History Of

My purpose in this paper is to recount the history of the Parents' Music Resource Center, an American organisation founded in 1985 whose main concern has been to denounce the obscenity and violence of rock music on the grounds that it is partly responsible for the numerous ills that plague the United States. The PMRC claimed that it only wished to inform the public but my suggestion here is that the actions of the organisation resulted in a de facto censorship of popular music. I shall accordingly describe the various steps of the process that led from information to censorship as well as probe the deeper reasons that may have motivated the action of the Center.

The state of rock: a history of Finland’s cultural policy and music export

Popular Music ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Mäkelä
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
High Level

AbstractThe Finnish government has historically been active in regulating the practices of popular music. At the same time, the music industry, rock media and musicians have traditionally insisted on markets free from state intervention. This article focuses on the history of the interrelationship between cultural policy and popular music, especially rock exports, in Finland. It argues that the high level of organised forms of culture and the lure of internationalism form the historical basis for the nation-state–popular music relationship in Finland. Following the demands for ‘competitive society’ in the 1990s and the international breakthroughs of Finnish pop and rock music performers after 2000, this relationship has intensified. Contemporary policy is in many ways healthier than in the past, yet it also raises crucial questions about hierarchies and identity relationships in popular music and society.

Post-Soviet economy development: From the past to the future

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yasin
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working Out ◽  
A Current

The article is devoted to major events in the history of the post-Soviet economy, their influence on forming and development of modern Russia. The author considers stages of restructuring, market reforms, transformational crisis, and recovery growth (1999-2011), as well as a current period which started in2011 and is experiencing serious problems. The present situation is analyzed, four possible scenarios are put forward for Russia: “inertia”, “mobilization”, “decisive leap”, “gradual democratic development”. More than 30 experts were questioned in the process of working out the scenarios.

Church Historians of the Early Twentieth Century: Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930)

2001 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. C. FREND
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Principal Factor ◽  
Early History ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Great Complexity

As in every other branch of learning, the study of the early history of Christianity has undergone massive changes during the last century. This has been due not only to the vast accumulation of knowledge through new discoveries, but to new approaches to the subject, together with the rise of archaeology as a principal factor in providing fresh information. The study of the early Church has as a result moved steadily from dogma to history, from attempts to interpret divine revelation through the development of doctrinal orthodoxy down the ages, to research into the historical development of an earthly institution of great complexity and of great significance in the history of mankind over the past two thousand years.

Dylan Goes Electric

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Kathryn Lofton
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Electric Guitar ◽  
Popular Music Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment

Within the study of rock music, religion appears as a racial marker or a biographical attribute. The concept of religion, and its co-produced opposite, the secular, needs critical analysis in popular music studies. To inaugurate this work this article returns to the moment in singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s career that is most unmarked by religion, namely his appearance with an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan’s going electric became, through subsequent years of narrative attention, a secularizing event. “Secularizing event” is a phrase coined to capture how certain epochal moments become transforming symbols of divestment; here, a commitment writ into rock criticism as one in which rock emerged by giving up something that had been holding it back. Through a study of this 1965 moment, as well as the history of electrification that preceded it and its subsequent commentarial reception, the unreflective secular of rock criticism is exposed.

The Decline and Fall of the True Christian Church: The English Deist View

2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Hillerbrand
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

AbstractChristian Deism broke radically with the past and had its starting point in the notion that Christianity, as it was known, was perverted and no longer represented in the true and apostolic faith. Many of the titles of most of the Deist's books expressed this dismay over the state of the Christian religion, the need for re-interpretation of the nature of the true gospel and for reform. While most books reflected on the matter, the individual perspectives differed on the questions: Whom to blame for this fall? How to date it? What was the correct issue? The article argues that it was not the contention of the English Deists that some churches had erred in some points, but that all the churches had erred in all points: The entire system of the Christian religion was perverted. Their view of the history of Christianity was intimately connected with their view of the person and significance of Jesus.

Music and Revolution in the Long 1960s

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-471
Author(s):  
ODED HEILBRONNER
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Protest Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

When discussing the relationship between popular music and social-political change in the long 1960s, historians and critics have tended to fluctuate between two opposing poles. On the one hand, there is Arthur Marwick's approach, echoed in Jon Savage's recent book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. In Marwick's cross-national survey, he examines social change in the West during the ‘Long Sixties’ (1958–72), when a ‘cultural revolution’ occurred in which protest music played a major role. On the other hand, there are Peter Doggett's and Dominic Sandbrook's observations that the top-selling albums of the 1960s and 1970s did not include some masterpiece by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Queen, or other leading figures in rock music, but rather the soundtrack of The Sound of Music. Sandbrook writes that it ‘projected a familiar, even conservative vision of the world, based on romantic love and family life. In a period of change it offered a sense of reassurance and stability, not only in its plot but also in its musical style . . . [T]hese were the values of millions . . . in the Swinging Sixties’. Doggett similarly points to the popularity of Julie Andrews and the soundtracks of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. These soundtracks ‘made no attempt to alter the culture or educate the listener’ he suggests, and that is why they have been relegated ‘to a footnote in the history of popular music’ even while being the top-selling records of 1965 and 1966.

scholarly journals Treatment of Cervical Pregnancy with Ultrasound-Guided Intragestational Injection of Methotrexate: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Angeliki Rouvali ◽  
Panagiotis Vlastarakos ◽  
Sofoklis Stavros ◽  
Maria Giourga ◽  
Kalliopi Pappa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Main Concern ◽  
Cervical Canal ◽  
Ultrasound Guided ◽  
Conservative Strategy ◽  
Cervical Pregnancy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
Previous Cesarean ◽  
Urine Pregnancy Test

This study is aimed at describing a noninvasive conservative strategy to the treatment of cervical pregnancy and highlighting the success of ultrasound-guided therapeutic techniques. A 43-year-old woman with a history of one previous cesarean section presented in our unit with vaginal spotting and a positive urine pregnancy test. She was diagnosed with a cervical pregnancy, and she was successfully treated conservatively with the administration of intragestational sac methotrexate under ultrasound guidance. Cervical pregnancy is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy that results from conceptus implantation in the cervical canal. The main concern is the associated life-threatening hemorrhage and subsequent need for urgent hysterectomy. The evolution of ultrasound over the past decades has enabled early diagnosis and has shifted the management from a radical surgical approach towards a stepwise conservative therapeutic approach, when possible.

Was There a Reformation in the Sixteenth Century?

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Hillerbrand
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Secondary School Teacher ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Haute Couture ◽  
History Of

Reflections on historiographical developments in the history of Christianity tend to be a rather dry matter. Though dry, however, such reflections are important, since historiographical emphases not only tell us where scholarship has been in the past, but also—since we are directed to look at the longe durée—why we are where we are. Historians tend to be, alas, a herd of independent minds, and there are vogues in scholarship no less than there are in haute couture. A generation ago, few historians used such terms as “discourse,” “construction,” “close reading,” “intertextuality” even as monographs—even splendid monographs—on a burgomaster's daughter would have issued only from the pen of a secondary school teacher in Germany.

Background and Rock Aesthetics

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Joseph Church
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

Chapter 1 gives historical and aesthetic context to the topic at hand. It begins with a brief description of the long-standing relationship between popular song and theatre song, and places both popular music and musical theatre in the realm of folk art. There is a brief review of the history of modern popular song and of musical theatre, and specification of the changes that the advent of rock music heralded in both industries. Next is a brief survey of rock music in the theatre, and the sometimes uncomfortable relationship between rock music and theatrical content and performance. Last is a discussion of rock aesthetics, which helps the reader understand the artistic basis of rock music and begin to apply this understanding to performance.

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