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Christian congregational music
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ISBN: 1317166787 1317166779 1409466035 9781409466031 9781409466024 1409466027 9781409466048 1409466043 9781299758858 1299758851 9781315571850 1315571854 9781317166788 9781317166771 9781317166764 9781138270183 Year: 2013 Publisher: England Ashgate Publishing Limited

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Christian Congregational Music explores the role of congregational music in Christian religious experience, examining how musicians and worshippers perform, identify with and experience belief through musical praxis. Contributors from a broad range of fields, including music studies, theology, literature, and cultural anthropology, present interdisciplinary perspectives on a variety of congregational musical styles - from African American gospel music, to evangelical praise and worship music, to Mennonite hymnody - within contemporary Europe and North America.


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Music as prayer : the theology and practice of church music
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ISBN: 0199330093 9780199330096 1299940137 9781299940130 9780199330089 0199330085 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Music as Prayer explores the spiritual and theological character of church music. Author Thomas H. Troeger--a theologian, preacher, poet and flutist-traces how making and listening to music can be an act of prayer, a way of sensing the irrepressible resilience of the divine vitalities, in down-to-earth language that everyone can enjoy. The book employs a wide range of perspectives: from scientific observations about the effect of music on the brain, to the insights of early church fathers about the place of music in worship, to the compositions of great composers and their reflections upon the


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Hymnal Companion to Sound the Bamboo : Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Contexts
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ISBN: 1622770234 1622770242 9781622770236 9781579997816 1579997813 9781622770243 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago : Gia Publications,

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A new, highly authoritative reference for all things related to Asian Christian hymnody, this tome examines the hymns of Sound the Bamboo in their historical, cultural, and spiritual contexts of 22 countries. Noted hymnologist I-to Loh has gathered and assembled his studies and experiences and that of many colleagues relating to the history and practice of hymnody in a part of the world that comprises many cultures and countries, not to mention spiritual influences. Few resources, especially ones accessible to Western readers, have delved


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Music in Kenyan Christianity : Logooli religious song
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ISBN: 025300702X 9780253007025 9780253006677 0253006678 9780253006684 0253006686 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press,

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This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture. Jean Ngoya Kidula narrates this history of a community through music and religious expression in local, national, and global settings. The book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.


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The school of Arizona Dranes : gospel music pioneer
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ISBN: 0739167138 9780739167137 9780739167120 073916712X Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books,

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Arizona Dranes (1889-1963) was a true musical innovator whose recordings made for the Okeh label during the years 1926-1928 helped lay the foundations for what would soon be known as gospel music. The School of Arizona Dranes: Gospel Music Pioneer covers the life and career of Dranes and situates her accomplishments in the broader history of African American gospel music and the rise of the Pentecostal movement.

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