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FIRST EDITION!
FIRST EDITION!Seay, an editor of Contemporary Christian and coauthor of San Francisco Nights, a history of psychedelic music, and Neely, founder of Exit Records and producer of the radio series Rock Scope, base this book on the research, interviews and music assembled for Rock Scope between 1978 and 1983. Beginning with Quakers, Shakers and early black Christians, a "spiritual force" is traceable from early blues and gospel to "Christian aerobic dance musicBelievercise," the authors maintain. They connect musical genres to religious movements, showing, for example, Pentecostalism's influence on Southern singers such as Roy Acuff, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Marvin Gaye. Other chapters examine the feverish performances of James Brown, the gospel roots of Sam Cooke and Little Richard, Pat Boone's white-bucks wholesomeness, the "incense-drenched insights" of the Beatles, the Grateful Dead cult, "electric shaman" Jim Morrison, the nihilism of punk and heavy metal, Bob Dylan's "Christian fervor."
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1986
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