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An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical ChristianityFew things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the 1950s and the 1960s more than thought of their children falling prey to the menace to Christendom known as rock and roll. The raucous sounds of Elvis Presley and Little Richard seemed tailor-made to destroy the faith of their young and, in the process, undermine the moral foundations of the United States. Parents and pastors launched a crusade against rock music, but they were fighting an uphill battle.Salvation came in a most unlikely form. Well, maybe not that unlikely--the long hair, the beards, the sandals--but still a far cry from the buttoned-up, conservative Protestantism they were striving to preserve. Yet when a revival swept through counterculture hippie communities of the West Coast in the 1960s and 1970s a new alternative emerged. Known as the Jesus Movement--and its members, more colloquially, as Jesus freaks--the revival was shor

God Gave Rock and Roll to You

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
    Publication Date: 01/07/2024
    ISBN13: 9780197555248, 978-0197555248
    ISBN10: 197555241

    Non Fiction , Education

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    An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical ChristianityFew things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the 1950s and the 1960s more than thought of their children falling prey to the menace to Christendom known as rock and roll. The raucous sounds of Elvis Presley and Little Richard seemed tailor-made to destroy the faith of their young and, in the process, undermine the moral foundations of the United States. Parents and pastors launched a crusade against rock music, but they were fighting an uphill battle.Salvation came in a most unlikely form. Well, maybe not that unlikely--the long hair, the beards, the sandals--but still a far cry from the buttoned-up, conservative Protestantism they were striving to preserve. Yet when a revival swept through counterculture hippie communities of the West Coast in the 1960s and 1970s a new alternative emerged. Known as the Jesus Movement--and its members, more colloquially, as Jesus freaks--the revival was shor

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