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The Devil’s Music

How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll

Randall J. Stephens

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$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674980846

Publication Date: 03/19/2018

344 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

23 halftones

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Randall J. Stephens is Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo.

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On the podcast Music and the Church, listen to Randall Stephens discuss the influence of Pentecostal practice and worship styles on the development of rock ’n’ roll—and specifically, on the performance styles of Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and James Brown
Listen to Stephens present The Devil’s Music on The Classical Ideas Podcast (later republished at New Books in Religion)
Listen to Stephens trace the history of Christian rock and contemporary worship music on BYU Radio’s Thinking Aloud
On the American history and culture podcast The Way of Improvement Leads Home (hosted at Mechanicsburg, PA’s Messiah College), listen to Stephens describe the tensions between rock music and Christianity
At History Today, read Stephens on the influence of Pentecostal Christianity on rock ’n’ roll during its formative years
Read an interview with Stephens at Religion Dispatches
Read a Q&A with Stephens at the website Righting America at the Creation Museum
Listen to Stephens’s interview with the BBC Radio Ulster program Sunday Sequence, in which he discusses the pentecostal roots of and gospel influences on Elvis, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Ray Charles
At the Social Science Research Council blog Reverberations, read an essay by Stephens on his experience searching for Christian records “from the denim and polyester era” in his hometown of Olathe, Kansas
Read Stephens’s articles and essays on the media, religion, society, and politics at The Conversation and Salon

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