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Exploring the contemporary congregational song genre: texts, practice, and industry

2016
Contemporary congregational songs (elsewhere referred to as ‘praise and worship’ music, or contemporary worship music) began some forty years ago in Western Pentecostal/Charismatic contexts, but their influence is now worldwide and pan-denominational. While professional and popular discourses relating to this genre are widespread, scholarly engagement ...
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“Don’t Frack with Our Karoo”: Water, Landscape, and Congregational Song in Kroonvale, South Africa

Safundi, 2012
There is a new environmental threat to the South African Karoo region in the form of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) for natural gas reserves buried deep underground. In this article, I use the issue of fracking in the Karoo to investigate the power of this landscape over its people and focus particularly on the question of how the cultural ...
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The Old and New Guard: Ways of Thinking for Contemporary Congregational Songs Writers (Poietic Analysis Pt 3)

2020
Continuing from Chap. 4, the focus of the interviews with the six key contemporary congregational song (CCS) composers shifts to consider a variety of factors affecting their writing. These include the way many CCS composers have integrated traditional worship forms (hymns) with CCS and the different ways CCS writers approach theological considerations
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When songs replace Scripture: contemporary worship music and the transformation of congregational formation

Theology
This article examines how contemporary worship music’s (CWM’s) emphasis on personal emotion over biblical content affects congregational spiritual formation. While offering genuine benefits for emotional engagement, CWM’s predominant focus on subjective experience may undermine biblical literacy and theological understanding.
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