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Do you remember the days when the Beatles were thought to be agents of Godless Communism? When rock and roll was denounced as a sure path to damnation and eternal hellfire?

Peter S. Scholtes reviews Mark Curtis Anderson's Jesus Sound Explosion

Jesus Sound Explosion is about a crisis of faith--two faiths, actually. From the moment in the 1960s when he first heard "jazzy music," his mother's phrase for anything with a backbeat, Mark Curtis Anderson loved it. As a pastor's son at Central Baptist Church in St. Paul, he also loved the Lord. And for a while he believed with all his viscera that anyone who did not would burn in hell forever.

The notion that those passions might be opposed seems as anachronistic today as a record-burning party. (When R. Kelly wraps himself in the choir, irony, not God, is dead.) But Anderson's hilarious memoir recalls a forgotten moment in American history when some white evangelicals, clueless for so long about rock's roots in black gospel, began to let the devil's music in the front door to keep their children from slipping out the back. Jesus Sound Explosion is about the hip-a-fying of born-again Christianity--the origin of today's booming Christian music industry.

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Richard Evans Lee
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WHAT CHRISTIANITY NEEDS IS A NEW NOVELTY TO KEEP THING ACTIVE;TO KEEP THOSE RATINGS FROM SLIPPING.KEEP THING CURRENT!NEW MUIC!NEW TRAPPINGS! LET US WEAR OUR RELIGION ON OUR SLEEVE OR OUR FOREHEAD....A MARK OF NOVELTY.....NEW AND IMPROVED christianity!!!THE HARLOT OF REVELATION IS CHRISTIANITY....A SMORGASBORG OF IDEAS IN A CROCK POT SIMMERING FOR CENTURIES....OH TJHOSE CAFETERIANS!

Posted by: JAMES | October 19, 2003 10:10 AM

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