Andrew Mall is Assistant Professor of Music at Northeastern University and a coeditor of Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives.

"This landmark study of Christian music in the United States offers both resonances and challenges to those in the field of religious studies."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPlaylistsIntroduction: Popular Music, Markets, Margins, and the Curious Case of Christian MusicPART ONE. CHRISTIAN MUSIC: AN INDUSTRY AND ITS HISTORY1 "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" The Christian Market's Origins2 The Great Adventure: Commercial Success in the Christian Record Industry and the Price of Profit3 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Christian Ethics Encounter Rock4 "Find a Way": Amy Grant and the Christian Market's MainstreamPART TWO. NICHE MUSIC MARKETS: ETHICS, PROFITS, AND RISK5 Music to Raise the Dead: Christian Music and the Ethics of Style6 Lost in the Sound of Separation: Resistance at Christian Music Festivals7 From Margins to Mainstreams and Back: Crossover Cases and Their MarketsConclusion: The Stability of Risk and the Risk of StabilityAppendix 1. DiscographiesAppendix 2. Pop Singles with Christian References (1957–70)Appendix 3. Major Christian Record Labels and SubsidiariesAppendix 4. Successful 1990s-Era Pop Singers' AlbumsNotesBibliographyIndex

Andrew Mall is Assistant Professor of Music at Northeastern University and a coeditor of Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives.

"This landmark study of Christian music in the United States offers both resonances and challenges to those in the field of religious studies."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPlaylistsIntroduction: Popular Music, Markets, Margins, and the Curious Case of Christian MusicPART ONE. CHRISTIAN MUSIC: AN INDUSTRY AND ITS HISTORY1 "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" The Christian Market's Origins2 The Great Adventure: Commercial Success in the Christian Record Industry and the Price of Profit3 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Christian Ethics Encounter Rock4 "Find a Way": Amy Grant and the Christian Market's MainstreamPART TWO. NICHE MUSIC MARKETS: ETHICS, PROFITS, AND RISK5 Music to Raise the Dead: Christian Music and the Ethics of Style6 Lost in the Sound of Separation: Resistance at Christian Music Festivals7 From Margins to Mainstreams and Back: Crossover Cases and Their MarketsConclusion: The Stability of Risk and the Risk of StabilityAppendix 1. DiscographiesAppendix 2. Pop Singles with Christian References (1957–70)Appendix 3. Major Christian Record Labels and SubsidiariesAppendix 4. Successful 1990s-Era Pop Singers' AlbumsNotesBibliographyIndex

Andrew Mall is Assistant Professor of Music at Northeastern University and a coeditor of Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives.

"This landmark study of Christian music in the United States offers both resonances and challenges to those in the field of religious studies."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPlaylistsIntroduction: Popular Music, Markets, Margins, and the Curious Case of Christian MusicPART ONE. CHRISTIAN MUSIC: AN INDUSTRY AND ITS HISTORY1 "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" The Christian Market's Origins2 The Great Adventure: Commercial Success in the Christian Record Industry and the Price of Profit3 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Christian Ethics Encounter Rock4 "Find a Way": Amy Grant and the Christian Market's MainstreamPART TWO. NICHE MUSIC MARKETS: ETHICS, PROFITS, AND RISK5 Music to Raise the Dead: Christian Music and the Ethics of Style6 Lost in the Sound of Separation: Resistance at Christian Music Festivals7 From Margins to Mainstreams and Back: Crossover Cases and Their MarketsConclusion: The Stability of Risk and the Risk of StabilityAppendix 1. DiscographiesAppendix 2. Pop Singles with Christian References (1957–70)Appendix 3. Major Christian Record Labels and SubsidiariesAppendix 4. Successful 1990s-Era Pop Singers' AlbumsNotesBibliographyIndex