“Where else did they copy their styles but from church groups?”: Rock ‘n’ Roll and Pentecostalism in the 1950s South
Church leaders and laypeople in the US went on the defensive shortly after rock and roll became a national youth craze in 1955 and 1956. Few of those religious critics would have been aware or capable of understanding that rock ‘n’ roll, in fact, had deep religious roots. Early rockers, all southern...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Church history
Year: 2016, Volume: 85, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-131 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ South
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Rock and roll dancing
/ History 1950-1960
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IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KBQ North America KDG Free church TK Recent history |
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