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dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-16T16:21:48Z
dc.date.available2017-03-16T16:21:48Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-17
dc.identifier.issn1703-289X
dc.identifier.doi10.3138/jrpc.29.1.3041
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620423
dc.descriptionThis article is under permanent embargo.en
dc.description.abstractYoga Jam are a group of musicians in the United Kingdom who are active members of the Art of Living, a transnational Hindu-derived meditation group. Yoga Jam organize events—also referred to as yoga raves and yoga remixes—that combine Hindu devotional songs (bhajans) and chants (mantras) with modern Western popular musical genres, such as soul, rock, and particularly electronic dance music. This hybrid music is often played in a clublike setting, and dancing is interspersed with yoga and meditation. Yoga jams are creative fusions of what at first sight seem to be two incompatible phenomena—modern electronic dance music culture and ancient yogic traditions. However, yoga jams make sense if the Durkheimian distinction between the sacred and the profane is challenged, and if tradition and modernity are not understood as existing in a sort of inverse relationship. This paper argues that yoga raves are authenticated through the somatic experience of the modern popular cultural phenomenon of clubbing combined with therapeutic yoga practices and validated by identifying this experience with a reimagined Vedic tradition.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Toronto Press
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.utpjournals.press/loi/jrpc
dc.subjectArt of Living Foundation
dc.subjectspirituality
dc.subjectyoga
dc.subjectelectronic dance music
dc.subjectauthenticity
dc.subjectsacred/profane
dc.titleYoga jam: remixing Kirtan in the Art of Living
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Religion and Popular culture
dc.date.accepted2017-02-28
rioxxterms.funderJisc
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUoW160317SJ
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-04-01
dc.source.volume29
dc.source.issue1
dc.source.beginpage1
dc.source.endpage18
refterms.dateFCD2018-07-24T10:10:15Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
html.description.abstractYoga Jam are a group of musicians in the United Kingdom who are active members of the Art of Living, a transnational Hindu-derived meditation group. Yoga Jam organize events—also referred to as yoga raves and yoga remixes—that combine Hindu devotional songs (bhajans) and chants (mantras) with modern Western popular musical genres, such as soul, rock, and particularly electronic dance music. This hybrid music is often played in a clublike setting, and dancing is interspersed with yoga and meditation. Yoga jams are creative fusions of what at first sight seem to be two incompatible phenomena—modern electronic dance music culture and ancient yogic traditions. However, yoga jams make sense if the Durkheimian distinction between the sacred and the profane is challenged, and if tradition and modernity are not understood as existing in a sort of inverse relationship. This paper argues that yoga raves are authenticated through the somatic experience of the modern popular cultural phenomenon of clubbing combined with therapeutic yoga practices and validated by identifying this experience with a reimagined Vedic tradition.


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