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SOURCES USED FOR THIS SITE

Articles

  • Kimpel, Dan. “Florida Georgia Line/Florida Georgia Line: Country's Hottest Duo Goes Big.” Music Connection, Sep 2014, Vol.38(9), pp.36-39

This source is useful for my site because it explains how popular FGL really are and speaks about their music.

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  • Doerschuk, Bob. “Florida Georgia Line crosses over to more spiritual 'roots'.” Press & Sun-Bulletin, Aug 24, 2016, p.B.6

This article speaks on how Florida Georgia Line changed their music from party country to a much more loving and spiritual country.

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  • Hayes, John. "Religion and Country Music." Religion Compass 4.4 (2010): 245-252. Print.

This article compares religion and country music from years ago to now and speaks about a whole bunch of different artists and how their music relates to religion.

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  • Bonaguro, Alison. “Florida Georgia Line on God’s Magic” CMT News, Oct 4, 2017

This source is useful for my site because it speaks about how spiritual FGL really is and how much Christianity speaks to them and how it affects their lives.

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  • Storment, Jonathan. “Worshipping Aphrodite: Only God Is Holy” Patheos, Jun 29, 2016

This article is written by a very religious person who in my opinion reads way too far in between the lines of the lyrics to H.O.L.Y and gives a very strong religious opinion to this song.

 

Books

  • Malone, Bill C.. Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Print.

This book gives me a background on the music that has come from the Southern USA and has a section that speaks specifically about country music and it's importance in the South.

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  • Cusic, Don. Discovering Country Music. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008. Print.

This book will be useful to my site because it speaks about country music and how it connects to the people who listen to it and their religious beliefs. It also talks about more recent artists and their connection between religion and their music.

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  • Hill, Samuel S.. Religion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Print.

This book gives a general background of religion in the Southern USA, where country music began and still stems from today.

 

Internet or Other

This webpage is useful for my site because it shows how dedicated to their religion they are and how performing in front of thousands of people makes them feel as though they are worshipping in a church.

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This page is useful to my site because it speaks about their life and past.

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This website speaks about how Florida Georgia Line combines the idea of religion and church with the idea of loving someone which can create a lot of conflict in the world of religion.

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This site gives an overview of Florida Georgia Line’s newest and most spiritual album yet and how it relates to the more religious community.

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This webpage shows us how much Christianity gets them through life and how much it means to them.

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This helps with my site because it gives us some surprising facts that you wouldn’t expect from Hubbard and Kelley, it’s useful for the biography section of my site.

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This site speaks about how Florida Georgia Line changes up their music a bit with their song H.O.L.Y. and how it creates a different sound and attracts a different set of fans.

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This website tells us all about FGL and what their music is about which makes it useful to my site.

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This website is useful to mine because it speaks about how Floriade Georgia Line are combining the topics of sex and drugs with religion in their newer music. This creates controversy and a bit of anger in some of the more spiritual fans of this duo.

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This site explains the underlining meaning of the duos hit single H.O.L.Y. and how it combines religion and pop culture.

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