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“This Is No Performance”: Exploring the Complicated Relationship between the Church and Contemporary Congregational Songs

Religions, 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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White Pop, Shiny Armour and a Sling and Stone: Indigenous Expressions of Contemporary Congregational Song Exploring Christian-Māori Identity

Religions, 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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Acceptance of contemporary songs in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe liturgy: Ruwa section, Goromonzi

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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Curating Contemporary Music Festivals [PDF]

, 2020
Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway?
Farnsworth, Brandon, Brandon Farnsworth
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Publishing Privileges the Published: An Analysis of Gender, Class, and Race in the Hymnological Feedback Loop

Religions, 2023
Hymnal curation processes have for centuries maintained restrictive feedback loops: material that has been published elsewhere continues to be published, and new material—particularly when it offers something unique—is evaluated against the criteria of ...
Katie Graber, Anneli Loepp Thiessen
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Indigenous Music in a New Role

Nordic 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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Music in the context of teaching about the Church of Augustine of Hippo

Fides et Ratio, 2023
The article presents some of Augustine’s assumptions about church music. Nowadays, his thoughts related to music contained in his philosophical works are widely known and studied.
Marek Malec
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Protestant Congregational Song in the Philippines: Localization through Translation and Hybridization

Religions, 2021
Historically, the language of Protestant congregational song in the Philippines was English, which was tied to that nation’s twentieth-century colonial history with the United States.
Glenn Stallsmith
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Harmonising Faith and Tradition: Sacred Vocal Polyphony in Contemporary South African Christian Worship [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This study aims to shed light on the intricate relationship between sacred vocal polyphony and the changing landscape of contemporary church music in South Africa.
Sakhiseni Joseph Yende
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Music as a Communicative Act of Faith: A Theological Interpretation of Liturgical Participation [PDF]

Pharos 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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