Author/music writer Barry Alfonso updated me on the new volume he’s written for Billboard, the BILLBOARD GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC. This is the first full-length study of the genre from a major mainstream publisher, and it’s just now hitting stores.
This 288-page book offers “a fresh, balanced look at the history, current state and future of CCM.” Among its highlights are exclusive interviews with such diverse figures as Bruce Cockburn, Toby McKeehan, Larry Norman, Charlie Peacock, Peter Furler, Rebecca St. James, Steve Taylor and Jaci Velasquez, as well as an extensive A-Z encyclopedia of artists.
Beyond the music, the book examines Contemporary Christian music as a larger cultural phenomenon, impacting issues of faith, art and commerce in America today.
