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Bridge to an Unseen Shore | 9.77 MB

Title: Bridge to an Unseen Shore
Author: Jacob Smith
Category: Spirituality, New Age, Popular Culture, History & Criticism
Language: English | 275 Pages | ISBN: 9780520426269


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An audiovisual journey into the visionary heart of New Age music
Today, with Spotify "Relaxation" playlists and 24-hour YouTube ambient streams, New Age music feels ubiquitous and familiar. But its roots are stranger than is commonly known, tracing back to the spiritual exploration of the 1970s, when a cohort of musicians created cosmic soundscapes sparkling with the afterglow of ecstatic spiritual revelations, psychedelic experiences, near-death encounters, and meditative practices.
In Bridge to an Unseen Shore, Jacob Smith argues that early New Age musicians formed a distinct artistic movement, a school of visionary art expressed through recorded sound. Their music sought to dissolve boundaries between mind and body, self and cosmos, offering listeners sonic pathways to heightened awareness and holistic experience. This was a multimedia movement as well as a spiritual one, and New Age music was paired with painting, planetarium shows, laser light...