Articles of category "Christian music"

The Christian meaning of gospel is "good news". At first sight, it seems rather strange that gospel has become the primary basis for the Contemporary Christian music industry with a variety of genres, beginning with the pop Christian music and ending with the hip hop culture. Moreover, a gospel tradition has found its application in the rhythm and blues music production.

Contemporary Christian music is quite a complicated and progressive phenomenon, having various genres and directions. It is an interesting fact that a gospel, honoring Jesus, has been fast developed into a hymn, then to country music - folk music - popular music - and rock-and-roll alternative music with further subdivisions. The period of the contemporary Christian music development took thirty years and today, it is a prosperous industry, producing a great number of recordings, which are available on cds, dvds and on-line.