Music, Religion and Politics – Conservatism in the Musical Practice by Evangelical Christians in Rap, Pop and Metal

音乐、宗教和政治——福音派基督徒在说唱、流行和金属音乐实践中的保守主义

• 批准号: 493744730
• 负责人: Reinhard Kopanski
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/493744730?language=en
• 关键词: Music; Religion; Politics; Conservatism; Musical

Popular Christian Music (PCM) is an important social phenomenon and at the same time a market of millions including a network of labels, music producers, bands and music magazines. There are Christian solo artists and bands in different styles of popular music – ranging from rap to pop to metal – who are rarely represented in the German charts but whose music is of considerable importance for the evangelical movement. It is well known that popular music has – among other things – been used by musicians for many decades to convey political attitudes of different convictions. However, a potential connection between music and politics in PCM has so far been academically ignored with regard to Germany.This musicological study investigates whether strictly conservative (socio)political attitudes of evangelical Christians (e.g. rejection of homosexuality, patriarchal notions of gender differences, rejection of other religions) – which contain visible overlaps with right-wing populist positions – can be located in musical practices. Based on this, the first sub-goal is to identify and systematize musicians’ strategies for incorporating political attitudes into their musical practice. The second objective is to investigate what importance musicians from PCM attribute to politics. Subsequently, the third sub-goal is to answer the question of how musicians engage with the tension that their own (socio)political attitudes based on the evangelical worldview and its inclusionary claims can in part be exclusionary. In order to take the musical diversity of PCM into account, three different styles are examined: rap, pop and metal. The study is designed as a multi-stage, cyclical process in which six case studies (bands and solo artists) are examined according to a systematic scheme. The cyclical approach consists of 1) primary analyses of the respective musical practices (e.g. songs, artworks and video-clips). This forms the basis for the application of qualitative methods stemming from the field of social sciences: 2) the analysis of discursive forms of representation of the respective band or musician (interviews in Christian music magazines), 3) participant observations at concerts by the same bands/musicians and 4) interpretive evaluation of the results, 5) problem-centered interviews with these bands/musicians and 6) the accompanying triangulation of the different data sets. The outcome of the cyclical process is 7) a theory of the politics of Popular Christian Music.

流行基督教音乐(PCM)是一种重要的社会现象，同时也是一个拥有数百万人的市场，包括唱片公司、音乐制作人、乐队和音乐杂志的网络。有不同风格的流行音乐的基督教独唱艺术家和乐队-从说唱到流行音乐再到金属-他们很少出现在德国的排行榜上，但他们的音乐对福音派运动相当重要。众所周知，除了其他东西外，流行音乐几十年来一直被音乐家用来传达不同信仰的政治态度。然而，到目前为止，PCM中音乐和政治之间的潜在联系在德国学术界被忽视了。这项音乐学研究调查了福音派基督徒严格保守的(社会)政治态度(例如，拒绝同性恋、性别差异的父权观念、拒绝其他宗教)--这些态度与右翼民粹主义立场存在明显的重叠--是否可以在音乐实践中找到。在此基础上，第一个子目标是确定和系统化音乐家将政治态度融入他们的音乐实践的策略。第二个目标是调查PCM音乐家对政治的重要性。随后，第三个子目标是回答音乐家如何应对他们自己的(社会)政治态度基于福音派世界观及其包容性主张可能在一定程度上是排他性的紧张关系的问题。为了考虑到PCM的音乐多样性，我们考察了三种不同的风格：说唱、流行和金属。这项研究被设计为一个多阶段的循环过程，其中根据一个系统的方案审查了六个案例研究(乐队和独唱艺术家)。循环方法包括1)对各自的音乐实践(如歌曲、艺术品和视频剪辑)的初步分析。这构成了社会科学领域中定性方法应用的基础：2)对各自乐队或音乐家的话语表现形式的分析(在基督教音乐杂志上的采访)，3)相同乐队/音乐家在音乐会上的参与者观察和4)结果的解释性评估，5)对这些乐队/音乐家的以问题为中心的采访，以及6)不同数据集的伴随三角测量。这个循环过程的结果就是流行基督教音乐的政治理论。