Open Up the Doors

Music in the Modern Church
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84553-186-7
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Studies in Popular Music

There has been much passionate debate and emotion aroused by the introduction of contemporary music styles into the modern church. While these debates have rarely produced a victor, the detrimental effects of them have resonated throughout many Protestant churches worldwide. Rather than simply fuelling this debate further, "Open Up The Doors" represents an attempt to provide objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed. The latest music from Hillsong, Soul Survivor, Parachute, Vineyard, Christian City and others is examined in order to reveal both the beneficial and dangerous trends occurring in modern church music. "Open Up The Doors" considers how well modern music is serving the modern church, and also how effectively it is operating as a musical form in the secular culture that surrounds it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A. Preface 1. Contextualising Congregational Music 2. Nothing New Under The Sun: Learning From History 3. Ending The Corporate Worship Wars 4. Resistance or Accommodation: The 'World' of Quality 5. The Rise and Rise of Pentecostal Music 6. Theomusicological Frameworks for Congregational Song Analysis 7. Congregational Song Gets Personal 8. Conclusion: When The Music Fades 9. Appendix: Song Classification and Analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Evans, Mark
Head of the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University