Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and indexes.
Contextualising contemporary congregational music -- "Nothing new under the sun" : learning from history -- Ending the corporate worship wars -- Resistance or accommodation : the "world" of quality -- The rise and rise of pentecostal music : history, hillsong, and star texts -- Theomusicological frameworks for congregational song analysis -- Corporate worship gets personal -- Conclusion : "When the music fades."
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Providing objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed, this book also considers how well modern music is serving the modern church, and how effectively it is operating as a musical form in the secular culture that surrounds it.
Contemporary Christian music-- History and criticism.