Word: revivalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strange, though, are the ways of fate and fame. The movie shows Lewis' bravado being directed at his cousin, revivalist Jimmy Swaggart, who is portrayed at more or less regular intervals denouncing rock 'n' roll as the "devil's music" and praying for the redemption of Jerry Lee's blighted soul. But the real-life Swaggart has since been brought low by the revelation of particularly tacky sexual practices. Lewis' music, manner and morality now seem almost innocent in comparison with what has followed him up the charts and into the hearts of adolescents during the past three decades. Even...
...this movie is not purely, or even primarily, documentary. The truth of its testimony is not so much literal as gospel, using that term in its revivalist sense. Mississippi Burning is a cry of anguish turned into a hymn of desperate hope, a glory shout in which remembered indignities mingle with moral inspiration...
...church leaders at Assemblies of God headquarters. It was a sorry moment for the denomination, which had seen attendance jump by 23.3% between 1979 and 1985. Adherents now number 2.1 million in the U.S., 16.4 million worldwide. Swaggart has been the group's most electrifying TV preacher and road revivalist, and his ministry has expanded lavishly overseas, providing $10.4 million of the denomination's 1987 mission budget...
...surely as word of King David's liaison with Bathsheba eventually reached the prophet Nathan (II Samuel 11-12), the sordid little tale did not remain bottled up. Last September rumors reached the receptive ears of Revivalist Jimmy Swaggart. Swaggart's source was an old friend, Fletcher, who had arranged the Clearwater rendezvous. Fletcher knew Profeta and Hahn, and had been defrocked by the Assemblies of God for alcohol problems...
Actually, such an attitude is typical of Edmunds who, for twenty years, has sought to become Britain's leading rock revivalist while modestly updating his sound to fit the times. In the late 1970s, he souped up his version of 1950s American rockabilly and became a leader of the "Angry Young Man" movement that made famous such British pub-rockers as Costello, Graham Parker, Joe Jackson and Nick Lowe. In the 1980s, he has even attempted, with varying degrees of success, to graft synthesizers onto his otherwise backward-looking music...