week 11 homework

<The history of Contemporary Christian Music>      link to original source

Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian Faith. Today, the term is typically used to refer to pop, rock or praise & worship styles. There are lots of sub- genres: Christian punk, Christian hardcore, Christian metal and Christian hip hop.

 CCM appeared as a result of the Jesus movement revival in the latter 1960s and early 1970s when many young people professed to believe in Jesus. It was during the 1970s Jesus movement that Christian music started to become an industry and Jesus music with instruments expressed love and peace. At that time, a church music was influenced by rock- style music. The style will become more familiar to all people. In the 1960s, there were Christian albums that contained contemporary-sounding songs. The first “Jesus rock” album is Upon This Rock by Larry Norman and the second is Mylon – We Believe by Mylon LeFevre, which was an attempt at blending gospel music with southern rock.
 
 The small Jesus music culture expanded into a multi-million-dollar industry by the 1980s. Beginning in July 1978, CCM Magazine began covering “Contemporary Christian Music” artists and a wide range of spiritual themes until it launched online publications in 2009.