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Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture. [PDF]

open access: yesNew Dir Stud Leadersh
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Sarkissian R.
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A “Sloppy Wet Kiss”? Intralingual Translation and Meaning-Making in Contemporary Congregational Songs

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Translation as a form of music localization does not only occur in diverse cultural or lingual contexts, it also occurs within an ostensibly homogenous culture and language.
Daniel Thornton
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Indigenous Music in a New Role

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2016
Music is a unifying force that repositions and resituates indigenous knowledge to suit contemporary needs for diversified usages, today including Christian worship.
Atinuke Adenike Idamoyibo
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“This Is No Performance”: Exploring the Complicated Relationship between the Church and Contemporary Congregational Songs

open access: yesReligions, 2023
“Performing” and “performance” are potentially contentious words within the context of contemporary Christian worship. However, performative elements are explicit in the lyrics of contemporary congregational songs (CCS), and in video recordings of CCS ...
Daniel Thornton
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Echoes of orality in Christian Xhosa songs

open access: yesLiterator, 2005
This article is an attempt to investigate and explore certain patterns in traditional Christian Xhosa songs as found in Xhosa music. The corpus of contemporary Xhosa music is vast, and difficult to explore properly without recognising the patterns of ...
M.M. Somniso
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White Pop, Shiny Armour and a Sling and Stone: Indigenous Expressions of Contemporary Congregational Song Exploring Christian-Māori Identity

open access: yesReligions, 2021
It has taken many years for different styles of music to be utilised within Pentecostal churches as acceptable forms of worship. These shifts in musical sensibilities, which draw upon elements of pop, rock and hip hop, have allowed for a contemporisation
Shannon Said
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Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs

open access: yesMusic Theory Online, 2022
This article examines musical expressions of the Christian doctrine of eschatology in Contemporary Worship Music (CWM), a subgenre of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines recent scholarship on pop-music analysis and Christian studies of CWM, I analyze the lyrics and the music of select contemporary ...
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Music as a Communicative Act of Faith: A Theological Interpretation of Liturgical Participation [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
This article develops a theological interpretation of liturgical music as a communicative act of faith. While sacred music has traditionally been examined from historical, aesthetic, pastoral, and liturgical perspectives, its communicative significance ...
Paweł Piotrowski
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The splintered art world of Contemporary Christian Music

open access: yesPopular Music, 1996
For many, art is a product: the painting to be observed and contemplated, the concert to be heard and enjoyed. There is, however, another conception of art – art as activity – and it is in this context that Howard Becker (1984) develops his concept of art worlds.
Howard, Jay R., Streck, John M.
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Can Music “Mirror” God? A Theological-Hermeneutical Exploration of Music in the Light of Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel

open access: yesReligions, 2014
A theological exploration of the potential of non-liturgical instrumental music for the transmission of religious Christian faith experience, based on a hermeneutical tool drawn from Jean-Jacques Nattiez as applied to Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel.
Maeve Louise Heaney
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