An academic press monograph on the history of religiously motivated American popular music, published by the University Press of Kentucky and named a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title the year after its release. Its authors, Jay R. Howard, a sociologist, and John M. Streck, place Seals and Crofts among the artists who brought explicit religious advocacy into secular popular music before the contemporary Christian music genre existed as its own commercial category, identifying the duo as public advocates of the Baha'i Faith. Its strength is publication by a university press with peer editorial review, situating one act's religious content within a documented broader history rather than treating it in isolation. Its limit is that this atlas confirmed the book's existence, publisher, and its identification of Seals and Crofts as Baha'i advocates through a scholarly search index rather than reading the full passage directly, so it is cited for that identification and for the book's broader subject rather than for an exact page quotation.
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Tier one: an academic press monograph from the University Press of Kentucky, named a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title, situating Seals and Crofts's religious content within a documented broader history of religiously motivated American popular music. Its limit is that this atlas confirmed the book's existence, publisher, and its identification of Seals and Crofts as Baha'i advocates through a scholarly search index rather than reading the full passage directly, so it is cited for that identification and the book's broader subject rather than an exact page quotation. NotesCited for its identification of Seals and Crofts as public Baha'i Faith advocates within the documented broader history of religious content entering American popular music, confirmed through a scholarly search index rather than a directly read page.
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AuthorJay R. Howard and John M. Streck
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
Publication Year1999
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Musical Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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