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No sympathy for the devil : Christian pop music and the transformation of American evangelicalism /
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 combining conservati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 combining conservative Christianity with rock--and its connotations of nonreligious, if not antireligious, attitudes--may have seemed impossible. Today, however, Christian rock and pop comprises the music of worship for millions of Christians in the United States, with recordings outselling classical, jazz, and New Age. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807878002 0807878006 9781469603247 1469603241 |