Mortality and Music Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Mortality and Immortality ..............9 The obsuring of death and Decay...........9 Immortality and the Denial of Death ..............14 Words against Death ..............19 Stratedies of Immortalization ....................25 Concluding comments ...............33 2. Death, Transgresstion and the Sacred ..........37 The sacred, the PRofane, Transgression and Death ..........39 Liminality and Pissing people off............45 Death chic, Youth Culture and the Romanticization of Mortality ..........49 The impure sacred ...............52 Concluding comments ...........57 3. The Undead and the Uncanny........61 Mortality and the uncanny.............62 Music and uncanny affective space ...........64 Memory and Memento mori..........70 Can the world be as sad as it Seems ............79 Grotesque bodies ..............87 Concluding comments ..........93 4. Morbidity, Violence and Suicide ........97 A vortex of Summons and Repulsion ......98 Thanatos, Survival and Schadenfreude...........100 Suicidal Tendencies .........105 Disaffection, violence and Death .............117 The Pornography of Gore, Violence and Death ......124 Living on Death Row ........127 Concluding comments ........134 5. Transfiguration, devotion and Immortality ..........137 A note on Myth ........138 Transcendence and Transfiguration ........139 Recorded Immortality ...........145 pilgrims and dead rock Stars ...........147 Kinetic rituals ........151 Concluding Comments ..........154