“I love to hear the music playing slow or fast … Don’t stop
, don’t stop the music, play it in your own way. . . . I hear
dissenting voices quick to disagree. But I’m on a music mission;
they don’t bother me. I’ll sing those songs that set me free.
Cause kids want to rock” (ED DEGARMO AND DANA KEY, “Don’t Stop
the Music,” Streetlight, Benson Publications, 1986, p. 24). “You
now have songs about pain and death and divorce and sex and
relationships and everything that every one of us goes through,
whereas at one time contemporary Christian music only talked about
the death and resurrection of Christ. We’re much more in touch with
ourselves and our neighbors, which is the whole idea behind Christ
in the first place” (MELISSA HELM OF MYRRH RECORDS, Music Line
magazine, June 1986, p. 4).

In Greebville Seminary Conference on Worship Taylors of South
Carolina said “last thirty years or so have seen the most dramatic
and speedy changes in Protestant worship in any time since the
Reformation. Surely the principal marks and symbol of that change is
the change in the music of the church. The development of what has
come to be called Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) has become an
amazingly widespread phenomenon”. Due to the rise of Pentecostalism
there is some dramatic change in development of CCM. Contemporary
Christian Music is pop/rock version of Christian Music with lyrics
based on Christian Faith. Contemporary Christian Music became more
popular in 1980’s with Music of Christian Music Artist Michael W.
Smith and Amy Grant. Millions of copies of there album were sold
worldwide. Download Christian Music Video, Video Tapes, Christian
TV Shows, Christian MTV Shows and Christian Music Videos By 1990’s
there were many new Christian Music styles such as Hip hop, metal,
punk and alternative styles of Christian Music.

Christian Music Artists like Lost Dogs, Joy Electric and Star
flyer 59 were against the new styles of Contemporary Christian
Music and they continued to create and compile Original Christian
Music. Due to tunes and melodies of Christian Music melodies, it is
considered as Traditional art. Russian Christian Music is one of
those few music which doesn’t use any instruments in it, It is sang
by choir without background music and Catholic masses in catholic
church still perform Bach organ music which were created long time
ago.

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