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Article: Sound alternatives.(Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? )(Movie review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- April 4, 2006
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IMAGINE YOU'RE part of a tandem making your first documentary film. Your experience: zero. In fact, you've never even worked a hand-held videocamera. Your subject matter: the fringes of Christian music. Your own religious identity: atheist.
On the surface, this might sound like a recipe for a cinematic disaster, a mockumentary or some fictitious indie comedy. But it's none of those things. Vickie Hunter and Heather Whinna's Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? (Blank Stare/RightRightRight films, available at www.blankstarefihns.com) is a ragged but earnest documentary that captures the convictions and contradictions behind independent Christian music.
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