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Behind the Music: Exploring Audiences’ Attitudes toward Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music

The Journal of Communication and Religion, 2014
A number of studies across disciplines have examined the influence of popular music on identity; however, comparative study of Christian music genres, which are clearly racially marked, is lacking. Based on Tajfel and Turner’s social identity perspective, this article examines the ways in which Black listeners of Black gospel and White listeners of ...
Omotayo O. Banjo, Kesha Morant Williams
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Contemporary Christian Music: Public Relations Amid Scandal

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 2005
Christian entertainment. While this notion is an oxymoron to many, it is no longer a foreign concept to the world of business and finance. Largely ignored in the past, this growing sector of the entertainment industry has begun to garner significant appeal with the public, and thus has attracted increased media attention–both mainstream and Christian,
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GROWTH OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC IN THE LAST TEN YEARS (1973-1983)

2023
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 23-03, page: 3190.
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Evangelizing Through Appropriation: Toward a Cultural Theory on the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music

Journal of Media and Religion, 2003
Mass media and the culture it carries have been identified as a key site of conflict in the so-called culture wars, pitting evangelical Christians against mainstream American society. Paradoxically, Evangelicals historically have appropriated the spectrum of forms of popular culture in America and secular commercial practices for evangelizing vehicles ...
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Jesus in a Chevy? The Rhetoric of Boundary-Work in Contemporary Christian Music

The Journal of Communication and Religion, 2005
The "Chevrolet Presents: Come Together and Worship" Tour was criticized hy individuals both in and outside the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) industry. The fall 2002 tour, which featured CCM artists Michael W. Smith, Third Day, and preacher Max Lucado, was critiqued because many saw the combination of Chevrolet's corporate sponsorship and Christian
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“FAITH COMES BY HEARING”: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CHRISTIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND AURAL PIETY

2017
Over the past fifty years, Christian contemporary music has joined hymnody and psalmody as a major form of evangelical liturgical and devotional song. While the production and content of this genre have been explored by scholars, few studies have attended to the devotional use of the genre and its role in shaping the religious lives of American ...
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