[BITList] Mystic Chords: Mysticism and Psychology in Popular Music

[John Feltham]

Mystic Chords: Mysticism and Psychology in Popular Music
By Soni Manish

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Publisher:   Algora Publishing
Number Of Pages:   244
Publication Date:   2002-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1892941708

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Book Description:

Rock and roll, and archetypal symbolism? Citing baby-boomer favorites
including Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, the Beatles and other Rock greats, the
author shows that they have drawn on the same primal source from which
mythology, dreams, and poetic insight arise. Does today?s music of the
masses deserve a place in the pantheon of traditional art forms, next to
classical music, literature, and painting? Manish Soni shows that it does.
Using illustrative references to passages from the Bhagavad Gita and the
Bible, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, Joseph Campbell and the Tao Te Ching,,
he highlights some of the parallels between psychology, mysticism, religion,
and contemporary art forms, as they all contribute to our human quest for
greater meaning. He is persuasive in demonstrating how the same elemental
well from which poetic revelation surfaced in ancient mythology is nowadays
the inspirational spring for popular music. The author?s Indian heritage and
his deep immersion in the Western culture, in which he was raised and
educated, has given him a special perspective from which to synthesize both
cultures and religious outlooks. * Manish Soni was born in New Delhi, and
has lived in Moscow, Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, London, Sydney, and Boston. His
formal education includes a BS degree from the University of Sydney,
Australia, and an MS degree from Tufts University, Massachusetts.



Download Description:

This enjoyable read ties in some of our favorite songs

with key passages in literature and scripture and monuments of modern art.
Exploring the nexus between mysticism, religion, and psychology, Soni
considers topics ranging from archetypes and the collective unconscious, and
the hero journey, to the use and effects of psychedelics, Gaia theory, and
reincarnation and karma.


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