ARTICLE: Should Christian Music Exist?
September 4th, 2006 | 
Articles | Source: ChristianityToday.com (17)
Mute Math sued its record company for marketing them as a “Christian band.” Producer/author Mark Joseph says that’s just one symptom of a broken industry… and he’s got some ideas how to fix it. In 1995, CCM magazine allowed three of us—Kerry Livgren of the band Kansas, the classical music scholar Patrick Kavanaugh, and me—to challenge the very existence of the genre in an article titled, “Can ‘Christian’ Music Exist?”
That led to other pieces for Regeneration Quarterly and Billboard that compared CCM to the old Negro Baseball League, arguing that just as the NBL had a vested interest in keeping its players from breaking the color barrier, so CCM’s leaders, for financial reasons, were often standing in the way of their artists being heard by the wider “secular” culture. [ …read more]
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