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Christian rock music


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    • Christian rock music
  • Variants

    • Christian rock and roll music
    • Jesus rock music
    • Rock music, Christian
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    • found: Work cat: The banner, 1990:(Christian rock music album by Rockers for God)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 8, 2021(Christian rock; "form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent")
    • found: Apostles of rock, 1999found in Chapter 1 (Christian rock and roll; also identified as Jesus rock; "off the beaten path of America's traditional religions, this spiritualization of rock and roll nevertheless created opportunities for Judea-Christian beliefs to influence rock. Though hardly expressions of Christian doctrine, many songs following this trend (Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," James Taylor's "Fire and Rain") drew freely from Christian culture, if not Christian belief. Indeed, this same period saw the production of Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell, two extraordinarily successful "rock operas" that blended popular music, rock and roll included, with Christian myths and ideas. Given this environment, Christian rock and roll -- JesusRock --began to seem less and less a contradiction in terms")
  • History Notes

    • [Established April 2022.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2021-12-08: new
    • 2022-04-07: revised
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