In Christ's Persona: A Rhetorical Analysis of Christian Heavy Metal Music

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Abstract

Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) continues to be a growing genre of music in the United States. With Evangelical roots directed at a predominant youthful audience, CCM has adapted to the times and often mirrors that of secular music. This paper focuses on Christian Heavy Metal music, specifically at the rhetorical tools used by the band As I Lay Dying to construct a religious ethos under the guise of appealing to a larger secular-based audience.

Author

• Jeremy Vincent Adolphson, Northern Illinois University