“Message From Thee Temple”: Magick, Occultism, Mysticism, and Psychic TV
Dines, Mike and Grimes, Matt R. (2021) “Message From Thee Temple”: Magick, Occultism, Mysticism, and Psychic TV. In: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats. Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music . Bloomsbury Academic, London. ISBN 9781350086920
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Abstract
Using the Psychic TV’s debut album, Force the Hand of Chance (1982) as an investigative framework, this chapter seeks to investigate, scrutinise and illuminate Psychic TV’s past and on-going relationship with magick, occultism, mysticism and paganism. Through a semiotic and discursive analysis of Psychic TV and TOPY’s multi-media texts, performances, rituals and interviews, this chapter unpacks the significance of magick, occultism and ritual in asserting Psychic TV’s occupying of an interesting ‘cult’ural and philosophical space between music, performance art and the practice and exposition of ‘chaos magick.’
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Popular Music; Religion; Psychic TV; Temple Ov Psychick Youth; Magick; Magic; Occultism; Mysticism; Spirituality | ||||
| Subjects: | CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies CAH20 - historical, philosophical and religious studies > CAH20-02 - philosophy and religious studies > CAH20-02-02 - theology and religious studies CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-02 - performing arts > CAH25-02-02 - music |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham School of Media | ||||
| Depositing User: | Matt Grimes | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2020 10:35 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 16:17 | ||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9501 |
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