Spirituality through the Science of Sound: The DJas Technoshaman in Rave Culture

Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 239-266

  Takahashi, Melanie ^a  

^a Heritage College   (Canada)

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