Email Print  I’ll chime in on the Contemporary Christian Music
(CCM) that Jeff Tucker comments on. I am an evangelical unlike
Jeff. I am also far less sophisticated musically, (if I have any
Renaissance polyphony in my large music collection I wouldn’t
know it). But I have always loathed CCM.  In an attempt to reach
out to fellow evangelicals that like this sort of thing I bought
an Amy Grant CD some years ago. I knew her stuff was well liked
and it had one song I had heard someone do that sounded
reasonable. The music on the CD was done by Steven Curtis
Chapman, another big name in CCM. I pride myself on my ability
to enjoy the good in a wide variety of music and always try to
come to something new with an open mind. But this stuff was
like… Old carnival music. Except not that good.  I’ve tried to
figure out why CCM is so vapid musically. Here is my working
theory: This is tradition-less music. Jeff talks about how just
about any genre is preferable to CCM. I agree and I think the
reason is that all these ge