Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian MusicUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014年7月11日 - 312 頁 Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the relationship between Christ and culture. The resulting tensions have splintered the genre and given rise to misunderstanding, conflict, and an obsessive focus on self-examination. As Christian stars Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream charts, Jay Howard and John Streck talk about CCM as an important movement and show how this musical genre relates to a larger popular culture. They map the world of CCM by bringing together the perspectives of the people who perform, study, market, and listen to this music. By examining CCM lyrics, interviews, performances, web sites, and chat rooms, Howard and Streck uncover the religious and aesthetic tensions within the CCM community. Ultimately, the conflict centered around Christian music reflects the modern religious community's understanding of evangelicalism and the community's complex relationship with American popular culture. |
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... audience that “God is thinking about you!" A raucous cheer erupts from the hillside as people stand and begin swaying to music that only moments before seemed to effect little but boredom. For this audience, however, it's not the music ...
... of those values), rock and roll provides its audiences with the opportunity to create identities through difference.” And while the lines of division may be. Introduction: What, Pray Tell, Is Contemporary Christian Music?
... audience members who hold values they believe to be contradicted by the messages they hear in the music. And, as has been repeatedly documented, for much of the last half century, rock and roll has been perceived to pose a clear threat ...
... audience; the audiences who appreciate, purchase, and collect it; and the critics, aestheticians, and philosophers who create and maintain the rationales according to which all these other activities make sense and have value ...
... audiences, and certain ideas to one another. It is the art produced by an art world that surrounds a heterogeneous grouping of sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and sometimes unrelated discourses concerning moral values ...
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Its Entertainment | 75 |
Its Art | 111 |
Its Business | 149 |
Contemporary Christian Music and the Contemporary Christian Life | 185 |
Discography | 221 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 290 |