"To what extent are music subcultures spiritual?"
Punk, youth and subcultural spirituality - finding meaning in secular spheres.
The concept of spirituality plays a part in every individual’s life, in part in relation to how one negotiates the term as part of a community. This essay seeks to discuss the ways in which engaging in musical subcultures facilitate spirituality - it investigates specifically, 1970s US punk to decipher the similarities and differences between religious and secular practices, and incorporates two interviews throughout, that put forward information about individuals own experiences with spirituality in relation to music. Punk creates meaning for punk, therefore is inherently spiritual.
New York City, 1975, home of the events that established American punk subculture, replicates aspects of religion. Punk had its buildings of public worship, places to gather …show more content…
Neither subscribe to punk subcultures explicitly but their views are useful in analysing the relationship between punk music and spirituality. For the purpose of privacy, pseudonyms have been used.
The first informant, Frank E. Potts, is a twenty-one year old male studying an undergraduate Bachelor’s degree in Science majoring in biotechnology, he has no religious background and does not associate with an organised religion. The second, Juliette C is a third year Bachelor of Arts undergraduate, majoring in media studies and film, with a sociology minor. Juliette 's father’s family is Irish catholic, she attended a Catholic girls school in Christchurch, and now considers herself to be atheist because of it.
The interviews commenced with their understanding of spirituality and whether or not each informant considered themselves to be
Punk, youth and subcultural spirituality - finding meaning in secular spheres.
The concept of spirituality plays a part in every individual’s life, in part in relation to how one negotiates the term as part of a community. This essay seeks to discuss the ways in which engaging in musical subcultures facilitate spirituality - it investigates specifically, 1970s US punk to decipher the similarities and differences between religious and secular practices, and incorporates two interviews throughout, that put forward information about individuals own experiences with spirituality in relation to music. Punk creates meaning for punk, therefore is inherently spiritual.
New York City, 1975, home of the events that established American punk subculture, replicates aspects of religion. Punk had its buildings of public worship, places to gather …show more content…
Neither subscribe to punk subcultures explicitly but their views are useful in analysing the relationship between punk music and spirituality. For the purpose of privacy, pseudonyms have been used.
The first informant, Frank E. Potts, is a twenty-one year old male studying an undergraduate Bachelor’s degree in Science majoring in biotechnology, he has no religious background and does not associate with an organised religion. The second, Juliette C is a third year Bachelor of Arts undergraduate, majoring in media studies and film, with a sociology minor. Juliette 's father’s family is Irish catholic, she attended a Catholic girls school in Christchurch, and now considers herself to be atheist because of it.
The interviews commenced with their understanding of spirituality and whether or not each informant considered themselves to be