Process Theology and Popular Music
Videos and Playlist for a Five Day Summer Course
see also the general introduction to the course:
Process Theology and Popular Music: A Summer Course
and a short Rap\Hip Hop page for the course:
Process Theology and Popular Music: A Rap/Hip-Hop Page
I am Human, Nothing can be Alien to Me
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I'd Like to Hear Your Voice in My Ear |
I'd Like to be a Rainbow in Your Cloud |
"Please share with me the music you love, so that can know a little of what it feels to be you."
Eight Themes in Popular Music
and their "Process" Connections
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Creativity, Improvisation and Novelty: The Many Become One and are Increased by One
Transgression: Novelty and the Crossing of (Specious) Boundaries, for pleasure and transformation Romanticism: Hope for Harmony, personal (intimacy) and social (just and sustainable community) Erotic Power; Reclaiming the unity of mind and body, Whitehead's withness of the body, no mental without the physical experience, even in God Prophetic Imagination: Availability of fresh possibilities for social critique and hope (Walter Brueggemann) Storytelling; the universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects; everything has and is a story Experiencing the Numinous (through sound): the power of emotions (subjective forms), appreciation for "the depths" Communitas (ritualized collective Joy in liminal states): Self-Enjoyment in Community with others, includes shared suffering as well as shared joy |
Video Samples of the Eight Themes
songs we played and videos we watched,
or thought about playing and watching
Creativity:
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Romanticism:
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Romanticism:
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Erotic Power:
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