No Sympathy for the Devil | University of North Carolina Press ~ David W. Stowe

No Sympathy for the Devil

Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

David W. Stowe

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2011
Pages: 304
Subject: Religion, Music | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807878002

DESCRIPTION

In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. The chart-topping, spiritually inflected music created a space in popular culture for talk of Jesus, God, and Christianity, thus lessening for baby boomers and their children the stigma associated with religion while helping to fill churches and create new modes of worship. Stowe shows how evangelicals' increasing acceptance of Christian pop music ultimately has reinforced a variety of conservative cultural, economic, theological, and political messages.