Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music.(Review)

Sociology of Religion | September 22, 2000| | Copyright

Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music by JAY R. HOWARD AND JOHN M. STRECK. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999, 299+vii pp., $29.95.

In this book, Howard and Streck employ Becker's "art world" paradigm to examine contemporary Christian music (CCM). The authors describe three different camps within CCM, which correspond to divisions within evangelical Christianity. Howard and Streck analyze the public discourse surrounding contemporary Christian music to discover the meanings that recording artists and other industry ...

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