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God Rock, Inc. : the business of niche music /
"Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us about commercial popular musi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : popular music, markets, margins, and the curious case of Christian music
- "Why should the Devil have all the good music?" : the Christian market's origins
- The great adventure : commercial success in the Christian record industry and the price of profit
- A wolf in sheep's clothing? : Christian ethics encounter rock
- "Find a way" : Amy Grant and the Christian market's mainstream
- Music to raise the dead : Christian music and the ethics of style
- Lost in the sound of separation : resistance at Christian music festivals
- From margins to mainstreams and back : crossover cases and their markets
- Conclusion : the stability of risk and the risk of stability
- Appendix 1 : Discographies
- Appendix 2 : Pop singles with Christian references (1957-70)
- Appendix 3 : Major Christian record labels and subsidiaries
- Appendix 4: Comparative pop singers' album success in the early 1990s