“Song Title” search of the “Popular Music” category reveals that, within the parameters of the site’s searchable stock, the titles of 9161 songs contain the word “Sunday.” The combined total of song titles containing other days of the week amounts to 15321, with Saturday, weighing in at 5857, as the leading contender for Sunday’s reign. Sunday, therefore, represents over a third of all songs titled after days of the week within the Amazon database. While there is little scientific soundness about this method of inquiry, it is more than adequate to demonstrate the overwhelming presence of Sunday, above all other days, in pop music. Despite its preeminence, the contemporary significance of Sunday does not originate within the sphere of popular music but rather within the annals of early Christianity. In Christianity, Sunday observance has accrued a mythological, ahistorical quality, positioning its origins in a nebulous eternity outside of ordinary time, and by extension beyond scrutiny. However, as Samuele Bocchiocchi elucidates in his From Sabbath to Sunday, the origins of Sunday observance in the Christian tradition are entirely temporal, and furthermore political; immanent rather than transcendent. An examination of the interplay between secular and sacred conceptions of Sunday will reveal that the pop cultural significance of Sunday is in large part a reaction to its uniquely political and frequently unexamined meaning for the Christian tradition.
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