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The Eucharist and Congregational Song: Lifting Our Hearts (and Voices) to the Lord!
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Relational Power, Music, and Identity: The Emotional Efficacy of Congregational Song
Yale Journal of Music and Religion, 2017 Relational Power, Music, and Identity: The Emotional Efficacy of Congregational Song The power of congregational song to unify (or divide) people along various lines is well documented. Yet, how this process of uniting or dividing is accomplished has proven necessarily difficult to document.
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Contemporary Congregational Songs
2020This chapter initially focuses on the contested nomenclature for this genre, including its historical evolution and theological justifications. Space is given to addressing the particularly problematic term, ‘Praise and Worship’. The chapter then proceeds to qualify each of the three words (contemporary, congregational, and songs) in the chosen term ...
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Finding and Forgetting Oneself: The Formative Power of Congregational Song
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Putting Christian Congregational Song on the Geographer’s Map
2014Worship through congregational song has been studied with attention to both texts and music, both practices of composition and reception, using a variety of methods and by practitioners of several academic disciplines including musicology, theology, sociology, ethnography, and social and intellectual history, with minimal engagement with geography ...
Andrew M. McCoy, John D. Witvliet
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Congregational Song as Shaper of Theology: A Contemporary Assessment
Review & Expositor, 2003The faith and identity of Christian communities are formed and defined in large degree by musical forms and patterns. Music shapes and conveys theology, and is a point of engagement with broader culture. This is especially true in Free Church evangelicalism, where musical styles have nearly replaced denominational distinctives as the demarcating lines ...
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Contemporary Congregational Songs Genre Formation and Scrutiny
2020This chapter introduces the global contemporary congregational song (CCS) genre. First, it explores genre theory to establish the validity of CCS as a genre. An overview of the history of CCS follows, alongside a selective review of its associated scholarship.
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The Current and Future Contemporary Congregational Songs Genre
2020This chapter brings the three layers of analysis together in dialogue, summarising the findings and articulating the nature of meaning-making as it relates to the contemporary congregational song (CCS) genre. It explores the contested nature of the genre and the conflicting messages that come through the research, including the balance between the new ...
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Aesthetics and Theology in Congregational Song
2005Abstract This chapter examines the decision-making processes that lead congregations and denominations to choose new hymnals. In the historical longue durée of American religious experience hymnals have undergone continuous change, making it possible for them to reflect changing theological conditions and to absorb the different sounds ...
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