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What Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”? A Comparison of Current US-American and German Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester

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dc.creatorKopanski, Reinhard
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T09:06:05Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T09:06:05Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe article discusses the question “What makes Popular Christian Music ‘popular’?” by applying different (competing) concepts of the term “popular” so as to showcase by which criteria Popular Christian Music (labelled as Contemporary Christian Music by the US music industry) can be described as “popular”. Thereby, the article compares both Anglo-American and German-language Christian songs by means of close reading using the examples of the German band Koenige & Priester [Kings & Priests] and US singer Lauren Daigle. Through the presented exemplary analyses, I argue that Christian music uses strategies of popularization comparable to secular popular music. The difference to secular music comes from the fact that the Christian message is a central genre marker of Popular Christian Music, leading me to suggest that the popularity (in the sense of reaching a large audience apart from religious/evangelistic circles) essentially depends on the polysemic properties of the lyrics.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.6:2020.2.4
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19527
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/236
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20721
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectUS-Americanen
dc.subjectGermanen
dc.subjectChristian Musicen
dc.subject.ddcddc:780
dc.subject.personLauren Daigle
dc.subject.personKoenige & Priester
dc.titleWhat Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”? A Comparison of Current US-American and German Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priesteren
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-23T11:19:18
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/236
local.source.epage57
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleReligion and Popular Music
local.source.spage41
local.source.volume6
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/1167262298
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18685595

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