The Rosary and the Microphone: Religious Impulse in U2's Mediated Brand

By Nicholas P Greco

The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation in a global context and for a global audience. Through the primarily semiotic study of U2's various mediations, this book maps the band's strategies for negotiating its place in the world as a global band--and mediated brand--and as a proponent of a kind of cosmopolitanism, or global care. U2's brand is heavily informed by Bono's own personal religious formation. This religious viewpoint is expressed in a global concern--a Christian cosmopolitanism--that looks outward and draws others to do the same.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781795541
• ISBN13: 9781781795545
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"