The Devil’s Music : How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 23637285
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674980846
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The Devil’s Music is the first scholarly account of how rock ‘n’ roll music and culture emerged from a bi-racial southern religious context. Key figures include internationally-known artists like Elvis, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash as well as anonymous laypeople, pastors, and religious entrepreneurs. It is also the first study of the religious controversies related to the new genre and documents the creation of the unlikely new genre of Christian rock. The book draws on never-before-used source materials from the 1950s-2000s from archives in England and Scotland, as well as California, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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