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This essay collection, devoted to exploring the richness of Christian musical traditions in the Americas, reflects the distinctive critical perspectives of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, an association of scholars dedicated to exploring...

In the book, music is approached as a sphere of activity where sacred and popular qualities intersect and amalgamate.The book is targeted to scholars and students of music, culture and religion, with a critical emphasis on interdisciplinarity.Will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848677777Author Noel RawsthornePage Count 347Imprint Kevin Mayhew LtdPublisher Kevin Mayhew Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901557428Author Wild Goose Worship GroupImprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 91g

Contains biblical songs of justice, World Church songs of protest and praise, and songs of experience from late 20th century Britain.Book InformationISBN 9781901557411Author Wild Goose Worship GroupImprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505122282Author Dr Peter KwasniewskiFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 113g

Fifteen powerful a cappella songs from the South African church. Freedom is comingAsikhatali (It Doesn't Matter)Gabi (Praise the Father)IpharadisiSingabahambayo (On Earth an Army is Marching)Siph'amandla (O God, Give Us Power)Akanamandla (He Has No...

The Voice of Virtue illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread across French lands during the Wars of Religion in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Guided by twin reparative traditions granting music and...

In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803691824Author Francis RoadsFormat PaperbackImprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905010431Author Anders NybergImprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 97g

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...

"Remains of Ritual", Steven M. Friedson's second book on the critical role of music in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of...

Winner of the 2007 AMS Robert M. Stevenson prize The arrival of Francisco de Penalosa at the Aragonese court in May 1498 marks something of an epoch in the history of Spanish music: Penalosa wrote in a mature, northern-oriented style, and his sacred...

By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir director and teacher. He...

Say the words "evangelical worship" to anyone in the United States -- even if they are not particularly religious -- and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and...