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This article examines how the concept of affective space can be applied to movie soundtracks, with particular reference to “The Scarlet Tide” from the movie Cold Mountain (2003)
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Why is it important?
The article explores how affective space works with the experience of individual listeners and the wider social context, concluding with an assessment of some implications this discussion has for understanding the social nature of music, religion, and spirituality.
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This article is expanded from a presentation at the American Academy of Religion to a joint session of the “Religion, Film and Visual Culture Group” and the “Music and Religion Group”. It brings together my research interests in both films and popular music.
Dr Vaughan S Roberts
Coventry Cathedral
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This page is a summary of: On listening to “The Scarlet Tide” (by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello) from Cold Mountain: a movie song and its afterlife, Journal of Contemporary Religion, December 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2016.1256661.
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