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Article: Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music.(Review)
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music by JAY R. HOWARD AND JOHN M. STRECK. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999, 299+vii pp., $29.95.
In this book, Howard and Streck employ Becker's "art world" paradigm to examine contemporary Christian music (CCM). The authors describe three different camps within CCM, which correspond to divisions within evangelical Christianity. Howard and Streck analyze the public discourse surrounding contemporary Christian music to discover the meanings that recording artists and other industry personnel attribute to their activities. They argue that contemporary Christian music "represents a ...