| Metal Missionaries to the Nation: Christian Heavy Metal Music, "Family Values," and Youth Culture, 1984-1994
Luhr, Eileen
American Quarterly, March 2005, v57, #1, p103, 26p.
“Luhr analyzes the cultural politics of Christian heavy metal music created between 1984 and 1994, a period when conservative Christians mobilized both political and cultural forces in an effort to extend their influence and power in American society. Popular music was vital to Christian conservatives' intervention into American public life because they emphasized the importance of changing hearts, a cultural issue, rather than votes, a political issue.” Eileen Luhr is currently a Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Fellow in Californian Studies at the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
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