Friday essay: popular music's search for the sacred in a secular world
- Written by Lyn McCredden, Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
Nick Cave performing with The Bad Seeds in Budapest in June. His song lyrics, with those often melancholy, churchy organ chords, are dripping in references to what might be called sacredness. Zoltan Balogh/EPA
One of the most rancorous, persistent and polarising dualisms today is, arguably, that between the secular and the sacred. Sacred and...
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