Christian rock

Larry Norman was a Christian rock musician popular in the 1970s who challenged a view held by some conservative Christians (predominantly fundamentalists) that rock music was anti-Christian, with his song "Why should the Devil have all the good music". Such attitudes towards popular music have been found in many periods of history.

Critiques of Christian rock

Some critics of Christian rock complain that Christian music trends are derivative of rock music and pop music in that they copy these styles and trends without creating original sounds of their own. " The stereotype is of some sort of derivative sanitized-for-your-protection version of whatever is popular on the radio, the musical equivalent of low-fat cheese " http://www.elca.org/lp/conmusic.html Others respond that all music is in some way derivative of previous works.

Related Topics:
Rock music - Pop music

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Another critique of Christian Rock is that some critics also feel that in reaching out to the main stream listeners, Christian Rock waters down the Christian message and content into amorphous love songs. Amy Grant, for example, received criticism for her song, "Baby, Baby" because it http://www.mindspring.com/~brucec/amygrant.htm was not clear that she was singing to God or to a good looking man in the music video. Steve Camp, Christian music critic, complains that Christian music has become "yodels of a Christ-less, watered-down, pabulum-based, positive alternative, aura-fluff, cream of wheat, mush-kind-of-syrupy, God-as-my-girlfriend kind of thing." http://watch.pair.com/ccm.html. Others respond that expressions of unconditional love reminiscent of romantic love are consistent with God's agape love and the tradition of the bilical book, Song of Solomon.

Related Topics:
Amy Grant - Agape - Bilical - Song of Solomon

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