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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... experience. Thus, debates over the nature of Christian music and its appropriate manifestations—traditional hymns versus contemporary praise choruses, positive pop versus angst-ridden rock, for example—are to a large degree debates ...
... experience underlying this project. Primarily, we hold that meanings are not inherent to various forms of music but are socially derived in the course of interactions between and among an art world's participants and the social ...
... experienced. It is, however, a social experience. Contrary to Key's claims, rock and roll is not neutral; it does carry “inherent” meanings. But this is not to imply, as Payton suggests, that those meanings can be seen and measured with ...
... experience. What this means, of course, is up for debate, although, from the apologists who find in the music a new ... experienced a whole new realm of human problems, and that has taken precedence over Christian Cheerleading.” Push too ...
... experienced religious conversions to Christianity also began to produce music consistent with their newfound faith. In a few cases, these musical expressions of faith could be contained within the artist's established contractual ...
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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 |