In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier generation, the idea of…
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier generation, the idea of…
Open up the doors: music in the modern church
Represents an attempt to provide objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed. This book also considers how well modern music is serving the modern church, and also how effectively it is opera…
Providing objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed, this book also considers how well modern music is serving the modern church, and how effectively it is operating as a musical form in th…
Providing objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed, this book also considers how well modern music is serving the modern church, and how effectively it is operating as a musical form in th…
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship is the first comprehensive reference work on a form of American music that is far more popular than nonfans may realize. It fills a major gap in the literature on American music and Christian culture, looki…