Act Two. What Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”?. A Comparison Between Current US-American Contemporary Christian Music and German Popular Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester
The article discusses the question “What makes Popular Christian Music ‘popular’?” by applying different (competing) concepts of the term “popular” so as to showcase by which criteria Popular Christian Music (labelled as Contemporary Christian Music by the US music industry) can be described as “pop...
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| description | The article discusses the question “What makes Popular Christian Music ‘popular’?” by applying different (competing) concepts of the term “popular” so as to showcase by which criteria Popular Christian Music (labelled as Contemporary Christian Music by the US music industry) can be described as “popular”. Thereby, the article compares both Anglo-American and German-language Christian songs by means of close reading using the examples of the German band Koenige & Priester [Kings & Priests] and US singer Lauren Daigle. Through the presented exemplary analyses, I argue that Christian music uses strategies of popularization comparable to secular popular music. The difference to secular music comes from the fact that the Christian message is a central genre marker of Popular Christian Music, leading me to suggest that the popularity (in the sense of reaching a large audience apart from religious/evangelistic circles) essentially depends on the polysemic properties of the lyrics. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-631892022-02-11T15:07:19Z Act Two. What Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”?. A Comparison Between Current US-American Contemporary Christian Music and German Popular Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester Reinhard Kopanski BL1-2790 M1-5000 N1-9211 The article discusses the question “What makes Popular Christian Music ‘popular’?” by applying different (competing) concepts of the term “popular” so as to showcase by which criteria Popular Christian Music (labelled as Contemporary Christian Music by the US music industry) can be described as “popular”. Thereby, the article compares both Anglo-American and German-language Christian songs by means of close reading using the examples of the German band Koenige & Priester [Kings & Priests] and US singer Lauren Daigle. Through the presented exemplary analyses, I argue that Christian music uses strategies of popularization comparable to secular popular music. The difference to secular music comes from the fact that the Christian message is a central genre marker of Popular Christian Music, leading me to suggest that the popularity (in the sense of reaching a large audience apart from religious/evangelistic circles) essentially depends on the polysemic properties of the lyrics. 2021-02-12T10:11:02Z 2021-02-12T10:11:02Z 2020-11-23 17:02:21 2020 chapter 50729 2414-0201 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63189 eng Journal for Religion, Film and Media image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.schueren-verlag.de/programm/titel/674-religion-and-popular-music.html https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/236 Schüren Verlag Religion and Popular Music 10.25364/05.6:2020.2.1 10.25364/05.6:2020.2.1 5b80c228-3393-4862-a8e9-6c35a63484f1 fa1c53a6-5634-4929-b5ce-5fd001346e24 41-57 open access |
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| title | Act Two. What Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”?. A Comparison Between Current US-American Contemporary Christian Music and German Popular Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester |
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| title_short | Act Two. What Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”?. A Comparison Between Current US-American Contemporary Christian Music and German Popular Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester |
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