MUS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Contemporary Christian Music
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Music they sky questions of conformity and not fitting in; being alone in rigid land. 70s much darker time, internal world - music responds to that. Poverty, music as a way out of this hopeless future. Powerful vocalist loud and control over it. Talking bible apart - you don"t have top live the way you are told to. More broad approached that explore non christian and philosophy ideas. Phl rather than secular way of thinking. Without christianity there would be no metal. Metal offers a way for people toe xpress their unconformoty idea in a dominant society. If we don"t decide to use the ideologies of the artists. They exploit religion symbolism just for sale because they want to be different than other metal bands. It was believed that the triton was the portal for the devil to come through music 1700s. No ambiguity as far as the message being a crossed.
