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Rock Gospel: Spreading God's Word |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Deborah Evans Price |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,126 Words, 12,389 Characters |
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Rock 'n' roll created quite a stir when it burst on the general American music scene in the 1950s. More than thirty years later it continues to generate controversy, making incursions into religious music today with the same ferocity that once set the secular music world on its ears.
When people hear the terms gospel music or Christian music, they usually think of a choir in richly colored robes or possibly a quartet of conservatively dressed people. Today's Christian music, however, is not limited to such stereotypes. Attending the annual convention of the Gospel Music Association immediately makes clear that participants are singularly varied flock. Men in three-piece suits talk earnestly with long-haired younger men in leather and makeup.
Christian entertainers today are exp...
. . .
...iefs should be expressed.
There are signs that the situation is improving. "People are becoming aware that gospel music is another form of expression. Music itself is not good or evil, it's the hand that guides it," Mark Gersmehl, of the group White Heart, says. "I think people are becoming aware that the message in our music is timeless, we're just playing it in the music of our time."
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