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Stephens, Randall J., 1973-
Subjects
Rock music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Rock music -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Christian rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Christian rock music -- History and criticism.
Fundamentalism -- United States -- History.
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Stephens, Randall J., 1973-
Rock music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Rock music -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Christian rock music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Christian rock music -- History and criticism.
Fundamentalism -- United States -- History.
MARC Display
The
devil
's
music
:
how
Christians
inspired
,
condemned
, and
embraced
rock
'
n
'
roll
/ Randall J. Stephens.
by
Stephens, Randall J., 1973-
Harvard University Press, 2018.
Call #:
306.48426 S832d
Subjects
Rock
music
-- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Rock
music
-- History and criticism.
Rock
music
-- United States -- History and criticism.
Christian
rock
music
-- United States -- History and criticism.
Christian
rock
music
-- History and criticism.
Fundamentalism -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780674980846
0674980840
Description:
337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Pentecostalism and
rock
'
n
'
roll
in the 1950s -- Race, religion, and
rock
'
n
'
roll
-- The Beatles, Christianity, and the conservative backlash -- The advent of Jesus
rock
-- The fundamentalist reaction to Christian
rock
.
Summary:
"When
rock
and
roll
emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the
music
's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was "ever working in the world for evil." Yet by the early 2000s Christian
rock
had become a billion-dollar industry. The
Devil
's
Music
tells the story of this transformation. Rock'
s
origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the
music
, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As
rock
'
n
' roll'
s
popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this "blasphemous jungle
music
," with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed. Stephens argues that in the early days of
rock
'
n
'
roll
, faith served as a vehicle for whites' racial fears. A decade later, evangelical
Christians
were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the
music
of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals
embraced
Christian
rock
as a way to express Jesus's message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens's compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today."--Provided by publisher.
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