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 strateg... Read more
Published: 2019
Pages: 229
eBook: 9781781795545
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 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 draws others to do the same.
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).
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||
| Preface | x | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 | 17 | ||
| Chapter 2 | 37 | ||
| Chapter 3 | 62 | ||
| Chapter 4 | 88 | ||
| Chapter 5 | 113 | ||
| Chapter 6 | 145 | ||
| Chapter 7 | 171 | ||
| Conclusions | 188 | ||
| Bibliography | 199 | ||
| Index | 209 |