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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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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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Ethnomusicology in Church Music Education: Revitalizing Batak Musical Values and Practices
EdukasiaThis 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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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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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 +2 more
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From Margins to Privilege: Revisiting the Sociology of Youth Subcultures Through Omnivorousness
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Advantaged young people may engage in transgressive or non‐conformist subcultural practices usually associated with disadvantaged youth. When undertaken from privileged positions, however, these practices can carry markedly different meanings, costs and rewards.
Chi‐Chung Wang
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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 +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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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MANAGERIAL STAFF OF CULTURE AND ARTS HERALDThe purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the processes of commercialisation of Contemporary Worship Music (CWM) in relation to the worship practices of evangelical churches and the music industry. The study seeks to reveal the ambivalence of this phenomenon, which simultaneously embodies both sacred and industrial ...
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ReligionsIn 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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