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Soundscape and worship experience of contemporary worship music: A case study in Malaysia

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
This study investigated sound levels and congregants' experiences of contemporary worship music (CWM) with a sound reinforcement system in a church in Malaysia using convergent mixed methods. The methods involved sound level measurements of 4 music worship sessions, a questionnaire with 86 respondents, and semi-structured interviews with 8 informants ...
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A Typology of Ad-Libbing: Performing Authenticity in Contemporary Worship

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Since 2010, the contemporary worship scene has changed. New prominent church bands have emerged and streaming services have made worship music more accessible.
Shannan K. Baker
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Acoustical design strategies for contemporary music in worship

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2007
Historically, acoustical design for traditional worship music has sought to naturally reinforce instruments and vocalists by carefully exploiting room reflections. However, the advent of ‘‘contemporary’’ worship and the widespread use of reinforced music have paralleled a clear change in the architecture, seating capacity, and expected acoustical ...
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Style Matters: Contemporary Worship Music and the Meaning of Popular Musical Borrowings

Liturgy, 2016
In North American Protestantism’s so-called worship wars, the musical battle lines were drawn between traditional hymns and contemporary worship songs.
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Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community

Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2020
This monograph is a highly dense and material-rich examination of what the author defines as ‘contemporary worship music’ (CWM), partly following emic language, partly prudently discussing alternat...
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Worship space acoustics and architecture for contemporary services with modern music

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017
In relatively recent time, some religious worship facilities are presenting a contemporary worship service with music that can be considered modern and different from the more traditional music produced by an organ, piano, groups that employ instruments as used by a symphony orchestra, and by a choir.
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Intimacy and Orthodoxy: Evaluating Existing Paradigms of Contemporary Worship Music

Missiology: An International Review, 2007
Contemporary worship music is a window through which we can examine the themes and preoccupations of people. Emotional privation, woundedness and alienation are major themes in contemporary Christian music. Reflecting this cultural reality, contemporary music emphasizes the subjective and focuses on the self rather than on God.
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