TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Christian rock concerts as a meeting between religion and popular culture
T2  - Articles
JF  - Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
VO  - 18
SP  - 36
OP  - 55
A1  - Häger, Andreas, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/journalfi.article67281
AB  - Different forms of artistic expression play a vital role in religious practices of the most diverse traditions. One very important such expression is music. This paper deals with a contemporary form of religious music, Christian rock. Rock or popular music has been used within Christianity as a means for evangelization and worship since the end of the 1960s. The genre of "contemporary Christian music", or Christian rock, stands by definition with one foot in established institutional (in practicality often evangelical) Christianity, and the other in the commercial rock musicindustry. The subject of this paper is to study how this intermediate position is manifested and negotiated in Christian rock concerts. Such a performance of Christian rock music is here assumed to be both a rock concert and a religious service. The paper will examine how this duality is expressed in practices at Christian rock concerts.
NO  - Ritualistics
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Christian rock music
KW  - Music, Popular
KW  - Contemporary Christian music
KW  - Worship
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Sociology and religion
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Symbolism, Christian
KW  - Music trade
KW  - Music concerts
ER  -