February 27, 2024

Music and the Culture Wars in the 1970s and 1980s U.S.

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This paper examines how evangelical Christians viewed music as a potential means to enact social change as they were becoming a basis for the Religious Right during the decades that led up to the 1990s, when "culture wars" became prominent in the U.S. It focuses on the periodical, Christianity Today, initiated by the politically influential

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Mikiko Tachi (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7779db6db6435876ec466 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4604.2024.38

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