The Story of Christian Music

Author: Andrew Wilson-Dickson
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9780800634742
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Music has been at the heart of Christian worship since the beginning, and this lavishly illustrated and wonderfully written volume fully surveys the many centuries of creative Christian musical experimentation. From its roots in Jewish and Hellenistic music, through the rich tapestry of medieval chant to the full flowering of Christian music in the centuries after the Reformation and the many musical expressions of a now-global Christianity, Wilson-Dickson conveys 'a glimpse of the fecundity of imagination with which humanity has responded to the creator God.' Book jacket.

Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement

Author: Dan Lucarini
Publisher: EP BOOKS
ISBN: 9780852345177
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
For many churches today, music has become one of the most important factors in attempting to reach unbelievers with the gospel. Writing from his own personal experience as a former worship leader, Dan Lucarini questions the use of contemporary music in the worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Apostles of Rock

Author: Jay R. Howard
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148057
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the relationship between Christ and culture. The resulting tensions have splintered the genre and given rise to misunderstanding, conflict, and an obsessive focus on self-examination. As Christian stars Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream charts, Jay Howard and John Streck talk about CCM as an important movement and show how this musical genre relates to a larger popular culture. They map the world of CCM by bringing together the perspectives of the people who perform, study, market, and listen to this music. By examining CCM lyrics, interviews, performances, web sites, and chat rooms, Howard and Streck uncover the religious and aesthetic tensions within the CCM community. Ultimately, the conflict centered around Christian music reflects the modern religious community's understanding of evangelicalism and the community's complex relationship with American popular culture.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music

Author: Mark Allan Powell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

Book Description
These essays provide bandmember lists, complete discographies, lists of awards, artist-website addresses, biographies of the artists, and reviews of their work."--BOOK JACKET.

No Sympathy for the Devil

Author: David Ware Stowe
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834580
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier

The Best Praise & Worship Songs Ever (Songbook)

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458428028
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
(Easy Piano Songbook). The name says it all: over 70 of the best P&W songs today. Titles include: Awesome God * Blessed Be Your Name * Come, Now Is the Time to Worship * Days of Elijah * Here I Am to Worship * Open the Eyes of My Heart * Shout to the Lord * We Fall Down * and more.

Christian Music

Author: Tim Dowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780281079261
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Music is at the heart of the world's cultural heritage, and from the beginning has played an essential role in Christianity, with many of the greatest composers creating sacred music of all kinds. Tim Dowley traces the story of Christian music from the earliest Jewish traditions through the Renaissance and Reformation to the present day, discussing both the various liturgical traditions and non-liturgical sacred music. Dr Dowley also covers the fascinating history of hymns and sacred songs, and Christian expressions in modern jazz, folk, rock, and pop idioms. This comprehensive volume ranges widely, with specialist features on Christian music worldwide, and a focus on such varied topics as Christmas carols, the music of Handel and Bach, spirituals and the blues, medieval polyphony, Hildegard of Bingen, and Contemporary Christian Music. Dowley considers key questions, such as: What is Christian music? Is it solely music used in Christian worship? Or music with spirituality, with the power to move people? And what is the role of the Bible in all this? Richly illustrated with almost two hundred photographs and pictures, Christian Music: A Global History is a book for anyone who is moved, inspired, or intrigued by any kind of music from the Christian tradition. Key features include: - Comprehensive coverage of the history of worship music, from ancient times to the present day - In-depth articles on key themes and individuals - Provides historical, theological, and liturgical contexts for Christian music - Includes specialist articles written by international experts - Covers both Western and non-Western musical traditions - Richly illustrated throughout

A Brief History of Christian Music

Author: Andrew Wilson-Dickson
Publisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 9780745937731
Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
Throughout the centuries, some of the most creative musical geniuses have produced works to be performed as part of the life of the Christian church. The result is a great wealth of hymns, anthems, oratorios and other sacred music, from which organists and choirmasters throughout the world draw the hymns and other music for worship today. How has this magnificent tapestry developed? And where does the relatively small part of the pattern with which each Christian tradition is familiar fit into the tremendous variety of the whole? These are among the questions addressed by Andrew Wilson-Dickson in this absorbing account, as he takes the reader through each period of European musical history, as well as the Orthodox tradition, the growing African scene, and the many-sided American picture - North and South.

Measuring the Music: Another Look at the Contemporary Christian Music Debate

Author: John Makujina
Publisher: Religious Affections Ministries
ISBN: 9780982458266
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Though the acceptance of popular culture (and in the case of music, pop music) within the Christian church is now an established fact, its very normality across the face of virtually every variety of Christian theological persuasion is telling. In a climate of extreme multi-culturalism, pluralism, and relativism satiated with the notion that music is value-neutral and worldview-free, church music has been cut off from history, tradition, theology, aesthetic norms, and ultimately the Word. The result has been a breakdown of church music standards along with a collateral weakening in other areas of life as well.

100 Greatest Songs in Christian Music

Author: Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781598020748
Category : Contemporary Christian music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
(Brentwood-Benson Adult Sgbks). Complete PVG arrangements of 100 of the very best songs in Christian music, according to the influential CCM Magazine . Includes: Awesome God * Flood * Friends * I Can Only Imagine * I Could Sing of Your Love Forever * Jesus Freak * Redeemer * Shine * Shout to the Lord * many more!