What was truly distinctive about the black Gospel music style of the Sanctified Church was its extensive use of musical instruments previously associated with "the world." Yet, this fact presents a theological conundrum. The very churches that were so enthusiastically "embracing" the Gospel style were, at the same time, ardently emphasizing strict moral living and the repudiation of all things carnal. In this article, I suggest lines of theological reasoning that may have informed early black Holiness and pentecostal Christians in their widespread liturgical use of the Gospel style. Drawing on primary source material from COGIC founding Bishop Charles Mason, I expand Lawrence Levine's model of the relationship between early black Sanctified churches and the secular black musical world and argue that a more nuanced conception of the Christ-world relation than is generally assumed may have undergirded Sanctified development of early Gospel music. What was truly distinctive about the black Gospel music style of the Sanctified Church was its extensive use of musical instruments previously associated with "the world." Yet, this fact presents a theological conundrum. The very churches that were so enthusiastically "embracing" the Gospel style were, at the same time, ardently emphasizing strict moral living and the repudiation of all things carnal. In this article, I suggest lines of theological reasoning that may have informed early black Holiness and pentecostal Christians in their widespread liturgical use of the Gospel style. Drawing on primary source material from COGIC founding Bishop Charles Mason, I expand Lawrence Levine's model of the relationship between early black Sanctified churches and the secular black musical world and argue that a more nuanced conception of the Christ-world relation than is generally assumed may have undergirded Sanctified development of early Gospel music.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
394-410
عنوان
Pneuma
شماره جلد
38/4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0747
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اصطلاح موضوعی
black Gospel music
اصطلاح موضوعی
Charles Mason
اصطلاح موضوعی
dance
اصطلاح موضوعی
holiness and worldliness
اصطلاح موضوعی
Holy Spirit
اصطلاح موضوعی
instrumental music
اصطلاح موضوعی
sacred and secular
اصطلاح موضوعی
Sanctified Church
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