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| Christian punk | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Early 1980s, United Kingdom and United States |
| Derivative forms | Christian alternative rock |
| Subgenres | |
| Christian hardcore | |
| Other topics | |
Christian punk is a form of Christian music and a subgenre of punk rock which contain Christian lyrical content. Much disagreement persists about the boundaries of the subgenre, and the extent that their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies among bands. For example, the Crucified explicitly rejected the classification of "Christian punk" while staying within the Christian music industry.[1]
Given the nature of punk and some of its subgenres, such as hardcore punk, many bands have been rejected by the Christian and CCM industry. Christian punk has been deemed novel in that it "seeks authenticity in two differently organized and orientated cultures: secular punk on the one hand and Evangelical youth culture and CCM on the other". [2] Some bands generally avoid specific mention of God or Jesus; likewise some bands may specifically reject the CCM label or express disdain for that niche of the music industry. For example, Ninety Pound Wuss vocalist Jeff Suffering said about the breakup of the band in 2000, "...[N]obody wanted to continue playing in [the] "Christian" music industry."[3]
It has been noted that "measured purely by record sales, Christian punk dwarfs all other religious contributions to the genre". Certain individual Christian punk bands outsold the entire market for the next-largest religious punk genre, Krishnacore.[4]
- ^ "I'm Not a Christian Punk". The Crucified Page. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2006-10-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Ibrahim Abraham, Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures (2017), p. 53, ISBN 1350020346.
- ^ "Ninety Pound Wuss – Raft of Dead Monkeys: Jeff Suffering". SHZine. June 2000. Archived from the original on 2003-02-17. Retrieved 2006-10-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Christopher Partridge, Marcus Moberg, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music (2017), Ch. 21: Punk and Hardcore, ISBN 1474237347.