Postwar California music scenes dissolved denominational boundaries among evangelicals

Evidence

Hamblen wasn’t alone in bridging the religious and mainstream entertainment industry. During the postwar years southern California became home to a vibrant local music scene where Southern Baptists and Pentecostals set aside denominational distinctions to sing along to the latest hits. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 70

Categorization

• QUESTION: This suggests the commercial-entertainment apparatus preceded and enabled the ecumenical unity often credited to theological movements like neo-evangelicalism — worth checking against the standard historiography.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s method-critique goal: if consumer culture collapsed denominational distinctions before theology did, that’s evidence for the commercial-apparatus thesis.