Christian alternative rock

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Christian music
Stylistic origins:	A variety of genres evolving from Jesus music.
Cultural origins:	1960s United States
Typical instruments:	Electric guitar, Bass guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Mainstream popularity:	Continuous from 1990s
Subgenres
Christian alternative rock - Christian bubblegum pop - Christian hardcore - Christian industrial - Christian hip hop - Christian metal - Christian pop music - Christian punk - Christian rock - Christian soft rock - Christian ska - Worship music - Cprog
Other topics
Christian entertainment industry - Christian girl group

Christian alternative music (aka ACM) is a form of alternative rock music lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. Unlike Contemporary Christian music, ACM generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content.^[1] The degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

1 History
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Christian alternative rock has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave music were recorded by artists like Daniel Amos, Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Youth Choir (later renamed The Choir), Lifesavers Underground, The Altar Boys, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards, Black Carnation and Vector. By the 1990s, many of these bands were being carried by independent labels because their music tended to be more lyrically complex (and often more controversial) than mainstream Christian pop music. These early labels (most now-defunct) included Blonde Vinyl, Frontline, Exit, and Refuge.^[1] The modern market is currently supported by labels such as Tooth & Nail, Gotee, and Floodgate. These companies are often children of or partially owned by general market labels labels such as Warner, EMI, and Capitol Records, giving successful artists an opportunity to "cross over" into mainstream markets.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Gulla, Bob (2006). The Greenwood Encycloepdia of Rock History, Volume Six. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 101-102. ISBN 0-313-32981-8.