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Article: To 'kiss the sky'.(I'll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence)(Book review)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- March 1, 2006
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I'll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence, by Bill Friskics-Warren. Continuum.
In a 2005 Rolling Stone interview, U2's Bono repeated a quote that has been the hallmark of his own career: "The music that really tunas me on is either running toward God or away from God." This is exactly the sort of music that also turns on critic Bill Friskics-Warren in his new book I'll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence--from the overtly God-ward ballads of folk musician Julie Miller to the defiant protests of Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor.
An elegant writer whose tunas of phrase are as illuminating as their content, ...