CCM Magazine

In the late 1970s, the journalist John Styll started a magazine under the name of Contemporary Christian Music Magazine, CCM Magazine shortly publish. This magazine is the most important publication to date around contemporary Christian music in the United States.

The movement of the Jesus People was their music, the so-called "Jesus Music", has become very popular and spawned its own industry, which recorded continuous growth. Stylistically, the magazine covered a broad spectrum, from traditional gospel music, on the newly formed religious folk and pop music to rock music and all other forms in the later years. Christian artists, who dominated the coverage of the early days, were Larry Norman, Love Song and Randy Stonehill and also artists with some Christian messages such as Bob Dylan, Al Green or T -Bone Burnett. Today, the magazine reflects current developments in this CCM scene contradicts reports on artists, releases and theological disputes in the field of tension and church music.

A CCM Magazine comparable publication is also available in the UK, the Cross Rhythms Magazine. In Germany there were in the 1970s and 1980s, magazines Cogo and IXX who devoted themselves to the Christian music scene. As its successor publication appears to eXact today! .

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