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Contemporary Christian radio in Britain: A new genre on the national dial [PDF]
Only in the second decade of the twenty-first century has contemporary Christian radio appeared as a new genre in Britain, unlike the United States where it has long been a significant format.
Macaulay, Kirsty +3 more
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Fides ex auditu: dogmatic theology and the ecclesial practice of music [PDF]
Any consideration of the aural reception of Christian faith must take the ecclesial practice of music and its relation to the divine logos into account.
Edwards, J. Andrew
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“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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Christian rock concerts as a meeting between religion and popular culture
Different forms of artistic expression play a vital role in religious practices of the most diverse traditions. One very important such expression is music. This paper deals with a contemporary form of religious music, Christian rock.
Andreas Häger
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Indigenous Music in a New Role
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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Power, agency, deference and difference Examining the politics of composer–performer relationships in the wake of recent innovations [PDF]
With a view to uncovering the political implications of notational, technological and musical innovation in composer–performer relationships within Western art music, this paper examines three disparate works: Christian Wolff’s Duo for Pianists II (1958);
Aulich, John
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Echoes of orality in Christian Xhosa songs
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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Carmen universitatis : a theological study of music and measure [PDF]
In every era and every culture, human beings have made music. Moreover, in most cultures---certainly through most of Christian history-music has played an important role in worship and religious ritual.
Guthrie, Steven R.
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Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs
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]
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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