Christian music

Christian music is music created by or adapted for the Christian church.

Brazilian Christian music

While Brazilian Protestantism came to be dominated by pasteurised CCM-influenced pop music, there was a period from the 1970s to the early 1990s when there was a creative movement adapting various Brazilian styles, mainly MPB, to religious meanings and even congregational singing.

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Very little is left of this movement, known simply as 'Música Evangélica' to contrast with the pop, commercialised, CCM-like 'Música Gospel', there are still individual groups or persons continuing the creative tradition, such as Guilherme Kerr. Furthermore, there are a few individuals creating Brazilian Christian music out of any specific movement or school, the most famous one being Elomar Figueira de Mello, who is considered by some the greatest living Classical music composer for his erudite, regionalist music escaping current nihilism common in Contemporary music.

Related Topics:
Guilherme Kerr - Elomar Figueira de Mello - Classical music - Contemporary music

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