God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Playlists
• Introduction: Popular Music, Markets, Margins, and the Curious Case of Christian Music
• PART ONE. CHRISTIAN MUSIC: AN INDUSTRY AND ITS HISTORY
• 1 "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" The Christian Market's Origins
• 2 The Great Adventure: Commercial Success in the Christian Record Industry and the Price of Profit
• 3 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Christian Ethics Encounter Rock
• 4 "Find a Way": Amy Grant and the Christian Market's Mainstream
• PART TWO. NICHE MUSIC MARKETS: ETHICS, PROFITS, AND RISK
• 5 Music to Raise the Dead: Christian Music and the Ethics of Style
• 6 Lost in the Sound of Separation: Resistance at Christian Music Festivals
• 7 From Margins to Mainstreams and Back: Crossover Cases and Their Markets
• Conclusion: The Stability of Risk and the Risk of Stability
• Appendix 1. Discographies
• Appendix 2. Pop Singles with Christian References (1957-70)
• Appendix 3. Major Christian Record Labels and Subsidiaries
• Appendix 4. Successful 1990s-Era Pop Singers' Albums
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index