Title: Styles Of Christian Music - Hiphop,Metal,Punk, rock and RAP
Author: Pandithurai K
Article:
"There are some people God has called to evangelism, and they're
doing a wonderful job, having results. That's great. ... God
wanted us to do something else. So we got into the area of
challenging people, and our ministry basically happens offstage
one-on-one when we talk with people. It's very subtle, but God's
doing a work! It's entertainment, it's fun, its a concert--it's
all those things--but at a subtle, deeper level, it touches
people's hearts" (TERRY TAYLOR OF THE DANIEL AMOS BAND, cited by
Dan and Steve Peters, What about Christian Rock, p. 109).
"I love to hear the music playing slow or fast ... Don't stop,
don't stop the music, play it in your own way. . . . I hear
dissenting voices quick to disagree. But I'm on a music mission;
they don't bother me. I'll sing those songs that set me free.
Cause kids want to rock" (ED DEGARMO AND DANA KEY, "Don't Stop
the Music ," Streetlight, Benson Publications, 1986, p. 24).
"You now have songs about pain and death and divorce and sex and
relationships and everything that every one of us goes through,
whereas at one time contemporary Christian music only talked
about the death and resurrection of Christ. We're much more in
touch with ourselves and our neighbors, which is the whole idea
behind Christ in the first place" (MELISSA HELM OF MYRRH
RECORDS, Music Line magazine, June 1986, p. 4).
In Greebville Seminary Conference on Worship Taylors of South
Carolina said "last thirty years or so have seen the most
dramatic and speedy changes in Protestant worship in any time
since the Reformation. Surely the principal mark and symbol of
that change is the change in the music of the church. The
development of what has come to be called Contemporary Christian
Music (CCM) has become an amazingly widespread phenomenon". Due
to the rise of Pentecostalism there is some dramatic change in
development of CCM. Contemporary Christian Music is pop/rock
version of Christian Music with lyrics based on Christian Faith.
Contemporary Christian Music became more popular in 1980's with
Music of Christian Music Artist Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant.
Millions of copies of there album were sold worldwide. Download
Christian Music Video, Video Tapes, Christian TV Shows,
Christian MTV Shows and Christian Music Videos By 1990's there
were many new Christian Music styles such as Hip hop, metal,
punk and alternative styles of Christian Music.
Christian Music Artists like Lost Dogs, Joy Electric and Star
flyer 59 were against the new styles of Contemporary Christian
Music and they continued to create and compile Original
Christian Music. Due to tunes and melodies of Christian Music
melodies, it is considered as Traditional art. Russian Christian
Music is one of those few music which doesn't use any
instruments in it, It is sang by choir without background music
and Catholic masses in catholic church still perform Bach organ
music which were created long time ago.
About the author:
Pandithurai K, is a software engineer, working in Singapore.
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