Music and Mediated Religious Identity: "Jesus Freak"

Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) is a genre that uses popular styles to express religious ideas. "Jesus Freak" (McKeehan & Heimermann, 1995), an enormously successful CCM song, is approached from the perspective of constitutive rhetorical theory. Both lyrics and music are critiqued t...

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Main Author: Radwan, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2006]
In: Journal of media and religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-23
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