Hidden in Music

Abstract

Can pop festivals offer young people opportunities to experience transcendental ideas, resulting in religiosity? The research proposed in this article joins current debates about pop music as a substitute for institutional forms of religion which are supposed to be vanishing. This article offers a critical reflection on some well-established approaches like large-scale quantitative studies and those focusing on cultural change. It contains a plea for qualitative research: so-called multi-sited fieldwork, stressing participant observation. The article is of a programmatic, reflective character. The research starts from the perspective of young people, following the Malinowskian dictum: to discover their vision of their world.

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