Origins of Christian Rock
Check out a fascinating article over at Slate.com — The freaky origins of Christian rock.
Using the 40th anniversary of the so-called “Summer of Love” as a springboard, this article gives a brief but informative look into the beginnings of CCM. From the emergence of the “hippie Jesus” vibe to today’s more saccharine CCM “Jesus as your boyfriend” vibe, this article helps fill in some of the “how,” “when,” & “where” (if not the more important “why?”). Here’s a particularly interesting quote from early on in the article:
“By the early 1970s, a new Jesus had hit the American mind—communal, earthy, spontaneous, anti-establishment. And this Jesus continued to transform American worship long after the patchouli wore off, inspiring a more informal and contemporary style of communion and celebration that, while holding true to core principles, unbuckled the Bible Belt from American Christian life.”
I would disagree with the statement in the quote that such changes held true to “core principles”, because I really don’t think that such is the case. At all.
That aside, it’s still an interesting article - one that indicates that we’re just starting to see that enough time has passed for real, more objective, History to be written (with somewhere around 50 years being the minimum time needed for events to be treated as historical, rather than current, events…).
-ghp
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