Spirituality, Fan Culture, and the Music of Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons Academic Article

abstract

• 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article presents findings from a qualitative study with passionate fans of the rock and roll band, Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons. The study looked at how fan involvement in the music scene enhanced quality of life through the ability to access a personal sense of spirituality. While the majority of participants (87%) had been raised in religious households, most of those (93%) had intentionally abandoned religious affiliation only to come to embrace a language of spirituality and religion to describe their attraction to the music. This study fills a gap by exploring how aspects of spiritual language and sensations can be embraced in a secular context after departure from a formal religious upbringing.

authors

• Dox, Donnalee

published proceedings

• LEISURE SCIENCES

author list (cited authors)

• Harmon, J. T., & Dox, D.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Harmon, Justin T||Dox, Donnalee

publication date

• May 2016

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Leisure Sciences: an interdisciplinary journal  Journal

keywords

• Ethnographic Methods
• Fan Culture
• Leisure
• Music
• Spirituality

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/01490400.2015.1092404

start page

• 268

end page

• 283

volume

• 38

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2015.1092404