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Contemporary Christian Music: Where Rock Meets Religion, Jay R. Howard
Contemporary Christian Music: Where Rock Meets Religion, Jay R. Howard
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...In the midst of this controversial relationship between rock music and religious messages, and as a response to a feeling of being "locked out" of the secular music industry, there has been a burgeoning Christian recording industry using rock music, known as Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). CCM involves the pairing of a Gospel message or Christian worldview with popular forms of rock music...