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The Strange Journey of Christian Rock and Roll
Randall Stephens’s history pays attention to political and cultural flash points—without losing focus on the music itself.
Joel Heng Hartse
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few years, it seems, what some call the “mainstream media” rediscover
Christian rock. Sometimes it’s treated with reverence and respect, as in
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s now-classic 2004 account of tagging along at a
Christian music festival for GQ. More often, it’s treated like a
sociological oddity: a strange footnote in the history of American pop, a
foreign culture to be explained with an anthropologist’s rigorous eye.
Just this September, The New Yorker’s ...
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Thursday, December 6, 2018
The Strange Journey of Christian Rock and Roll
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