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The splintered art world of Contemporary Christian Music
Popular 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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Pop goes the Pope: religion and popular music in Italy
Church, Communication and Culture, 2021 Music has maintained a long relationship with cult since ancient times, contributing to its efficacy and strengthening a communitarian identity. The advent of Christianity marked a sensible change in the way music was used, pioneering the very idea of ...
Paolo Prato
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Religions, 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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Music-Makers and Reformed Theology
Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat, 2016 : If Reformed theology hopes to impact contemporary and future societies as much as possible it will have to harness the unique power of music to influence the world beyond the walls of the Church.
Jahdiel N Perez
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African Musicology Online, 2023 The study examined the use of songs from outside the worship liturgy of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (MCZ) in the Ruwa Section, Goromonzi Circuit. The circuit had six congregations with mixed views on the above-referred songs. A debate on the choice
Richard Muranda, Egnes Banda
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The Effect of Repetition and Expertise on Liking and Complexity in Contemporary Music [PDF]
, 2015 Aesthetic perception of music has been extensively researched in the last decades. Numerous studies suggest that listeners find a piece of music more or less pleasant according to its complexity.
Vallati, Mauro, Velardo, Valerio
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A Perfect Chord: Trinity in Music, Music in the Trinity
Religions, 2013 The doctrine of God’s Triunity is at the core of Christian faith; this article presents a theological survey of how it has been understood in a musical way during the Christian era.
Chiara Bertoglio
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Religions, 2023 In the recent study of Contemporary Praise and Worship (CPW), many studies have focused on musical repertory, including its text, music, and performance, as the foundational text(s) for theoretical analysis.
Jonathan M. Ottaway
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Sacred Art Between Tradition and Personal Expression
Diakrisis, 2021 The aim of this article is to present a personal reflection regarding the theoretical/philosophical relation between the generally accepted theological grounding of icon painting and other contemporary artistical endeavours to integrate the religious ...
Andreea Stoicescu
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ReligionsThis article draws upon doctoral case study data from two Protestant Christian churches to examine how contemporary worship music-making practices can reinforce and solidify the musical tastes, dispositions, and tendencies of particular demographics ...
Laura Benjamins
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