The Rosary and the Microphone - Religious Impulse in U2's Mediated Brand

The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation in a global context and for a global audience.
Through the primarily semiotic study of U2's various mediations, this book maps the band's strategies for negotiating its place in the world as a global band - and a mediated brand - and as a proponent of a kind of cosmopolitanism, or global care. U2's brand is heavily informed by Bono's own personal religious formation. This religious viewpoint is expressed in a global concern - a Christian cosmopolitanism - that looks outward and urges others to do the same.
The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 in live performance, through music videos and in unique media offerings, such as the feature-length music video Linear.

About the author

Nicholas P. Greco is Associate Professor, Communications and Media, Providence University College in Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of David Bowie in Darkness (2015) and 'Only if you are Really Interested': Celebrity, Gender, Desire and the World of Morrissey (2011).

Summary

The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation in a global context and for a global audience.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas P Greco, Nicholas P. Greco, GRECO NICHOLAS
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781781795552
• ISBN: 978-1-78179-555-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 357 g
• Series: Studies in Popular Music; Popular Music History; Studies in Popular Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs