The Influence of Society and Beliefs on Contemporary Christian Music

In much the same way that African American novelists have entered “into the literate public sphere” through slave narratives, Christian musicians have broken into the popular music scene through Contemporary Christian music. According to Madhu Dubey in “The Politics of Genre in Beloved,” African-American writers must relate traditions of their own culture through a form of literary writing that is not their own (Dubey 3). Similarly Contemporary Christian artists proclaim their message through secular music style, a medium that does not belong to them.
Today’s society has imposed unspoken restrictions on the Christian message that it must be “hip” in order to be heard. These politics have pressured Christian artists to create music resembling that of the popular mainstream scene. Christian copycat genres have emerged, including Christian pop, rock, rap, heavy metal, and many others. The result is identical-sounding religious and secular music that communicate d...