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Over-Generalizing, Under-Promising, and Over-Promising: Singing Sadness and Joy in the Church

Religions, 2022
In this article, I examine the emotional content of songs sung in Christian churches. An analysis of the lyrical content of the songs that have been tracked by Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) from 1988 to 2018, shows there is a ...
Daniel Jesse
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Kerala´s Ancient Mizhavu Drum: Transformations and Sustainability

Asian-European Music Research Journal, 2021
The Kerala state in India offers a huge assemblage of various percussion eccentricities. Each percussion instrument sustains and preserves its own attributes: some drums accompany visual arts, others create a vibrant world of percussion music, and a few ...
K. Sajith Vijayan, Karin Bindu
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COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
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Ethnomusicology in Church Music Education: Revitalizing Batak Musical Values and Practices

Edukasia
This study aims to analyze the role of ethnomusicology in church music education as an effort to revitalize the values and practices of Batak music in the context of contemporary Christian worship.
Boho Parulian Pardede
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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The 'cognitive' and the 'emotive' component in Christian songs: Tracing the shifts in traditional and contemporary songs

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
This research article is based on the author s doctoral research into the question of quality criteria for Christian songs. In many Christian congregations today, the question of music is an emotive issue as the service and its music touch the heart of ...
J. Gertrud T�nsing, Cas J. Wepener, Cas Vos   +2 more
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Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography

Southern Spaces, 2007
This essay explores the history, geography, and contemporary practices of Sacred Harp—one form of a cappella, shape-note music—in the US South. The roots of Sacred Harp extend back to an eighteenth-century New England singing-school movement that spread ...
James B. Wallace
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The Music of the Silent Exodus: Nunchi Bwa-ing and Christian Musicking in a Second-Generation Asian American Church

Religions
In 1996, Helen Lee dubbed the departure of second-generation Asian Americans from the non-English-speaking immigrant churches that they were raised in as the “silent exodus”.
Kathryn Minyoung Cooke
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Requiem. Resonanzen katholischer Totenliturgie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2018
Liturgical music at Roman-Catholic funerals has a very diverse character in contemporary Western society, especially in a strongly secularized country like the Netherlands.
Thomas Quartier
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