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Title: Honky-Tonk Gospel: The Story of Sin and Salvation in Country Music by Gene Edward Veith, Thomas L. Wilmeth ISBN: 0-8010-6355-8 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not an active Country Music Fan, This is Good
Comment: I like country, just don't spend much time actively in it. This treatment of the subject is thorough and easy to follow in its points. Written from a solid Christian perspective, the authors make the consistent point that country has as its roots a Christian, gospel orientation.
While such orientation does not predominate, it is there and has always been there. Now, contemporary country fights the battle with other venues of the pop culture. Amazing the story of Alan Jackson at the CMC awards. Right on Alan. I knew this man was a winner!
One learns much about the real world from country music. Nothing is hidden in the lyrics of this music, it tells it like it is. People can relate to it. It's not all the hype of pop. Until, Garth et al started letting it seep in.
Suggest also Mark Zwonitzer's excellent book on the Carter Family where he shows how the Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis types cut their musical teeth on Country Gospel, then lost it to the commercialism.
What we sell our souls for! This book exposes that while admirably detailing how traditional country supports classic Christian values. Well done and great read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining and Enlightening
Comment: While I'm not a real fan of country music myself, I did find this book to be a great read. Country music may be the last vestige of popular American culture that still has Christian underpinings but it has also begun to drift as it is swallowed up by the "no-brow" culture of marketing. The authors do seem to have some trouble with facts (Bristol is in Virginia and Tennessee not Kentucky and the relationship between Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart) but other than a few minor points the thesis still holds up.
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Title: Loving God With All Your Mind: Thinking as a Christian in the Postmodern World by Gene Edward, Jr. Veith ISBN: 1581345127 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (Turning Point Christian Worldview) by Gene Edward, Jr. Veith, Gene Edward Veith Jr. ISBN: 0891077685 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden ISBN: 0300096933 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series) by Gene Edward, Jr. Veith ISBN: 0891075828 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals by Gene Edward Veith ISBN: 0570053218 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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