Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music

Contents

• Contributors List Foreword, Graham Harvey
• 1. Towards a Definition of Pagan Music, Donna Weston and Andy Bennett
• Part I Histories
• 2. Paganism and the Counter-culture, Andy Bennett
• 3. Paganism, Popular Music and Stonehenge, Rupert Till
• 4. Rememberings of a Pagan Past: Popular Music and Sacred Place, Donna Weston
• Part II Genres
• 5. Pagan Metal, Deena Weinstein
• 6. The Darker Shade of Pagan: The Emergence of Goth, Jason Pitzl-Waters
• 7. Paganism and the British Folk Revival, Andy Letcher
• Part III Performance
• 8. Dancing Paganism: Music, Dance and Pagan Identity, Douglas Ezzy
• 9. Total Solar Eclipse Festivals, Cosmic Spirituality and Planetary Culture, Graham St John
• 10. Techno-shamanism and the Economy of Ecstasy as a Religious Experience, Alan Nixon and Adam Possamai
• Part IV Communities
• 11. Sacramental Song: Theological Imagination in the Religious Music of American Pagans, Christopher Chase
• 12. The Rise of the Celtic Cyber-diaspora: The Influence of the "New Age" on Internet Pagan Communities and the Dissemination of "Celtic" Music, Narelle McCoy 13 Esoterrorism and the Wrecking of Civilization: Genesis P-Orridge and the Rise of Industrial
• Bibliography
• Index