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.
- ISBN13 9781781795545
- Publish Date 16 October 2019 (first published 1 September 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 230
- Language English
- URL http://https://equinoxpub.com/home/rosary-microphone/