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Late in the Reagan years, three young men at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University formed the Christian rap group dc Talk. The trio put out a series of records that quickly secured their place at the forefront of contemporary Christian music. But, with their fourth studio album Jesus Freak (1995), dc Talk staked a powerful claim on the worldly market of alternative music, becoming an evangelical group with secular selling power. This book sets out to study this mid-90s crossover phenomenon—a momen...

This collection from the RSCM brings together an exciting group of recent works for upper-voice church and school choirs. The English anthem tradition has blossomed in the last 30 years, as composers have reacted, in a wide variety of styles, to the stimulus of fine texts, old and new. They have also responded to the health and vigour of upper-voice choirs. Here are twenty-two first-rate anthems, at varying levels of difficulty. They come from some of the most distinguished composers in the fiel...

Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die reformierte Liturgie ublicherweise keinen Raum fur selbstandige Instrumentalmusik bietet, sind die hier nach den Quellen CZ-Pn Bludov R 18, CH-Bu F IX 47, CH-Bu F IX 48 edierten kompletten Bearbeitungen des Genfer Psalters, die der Basler Lehrer und Organist Samuel Mareschal (1554-1640) anfertigte, bemerkenswert. Zudem bieten die Satze in ihrer dem Stegreifspiel nahen Faktur seltene Einblicke in die Musizierpraxis und Instrumentalpadagogik im Kontext von Univers...

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodo...

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. The chart-topping, spiritually inflected music created a space in popular culture for talk of Jesus, God, and Christianity, thus lessening for baby boomers and their children the stigma associated with religion while helping to fill churches and create new mo...

Zum 350-jahrigen Geburtsjubilaum von F. W. Zachow erscheint erstmals in Buchform diese innovative, provokative und auch uberraschende Forschungsarbeit. Zachow war Handels Lehrmeister. Die Arbeit erschliesst die Handschriften der Vokalwerke Zachows mit historisch-quellenkundlicher Methodik und stellt erstmals ein Quellenverzeichnis zusammen. Sie untersucht die gattungs- und stilbildenden Aspekte seiner Kompositionen und seine musik-historische Sonderbedeutung. Ausserdem eroertert sie die Bewerbun...

Die Arbeit bietet einen Beitrag zu zwei Interessengebieten der neueren Hymnologie: -Die Restauration des deutschen evangelischen Kirchenliedes im 19. Jahrhundert- und -Varianten im Kirchenlied-. Albert Knapp hat in seinem -Evangelischen Liederschatz- geistliche Lieder aus allen Jahrhunderten in mehr oder weniger stark verandernden Bearbeitungen geboten. Die Arbeit untersucht die Auswahl- und Anderungsprinzipien Knapps und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass zwar die Auswahlprinzipien Knapps grosstenteils...

An insider's look at the birth, evolution, and growing popularity of Christian rock music. As the counter - cultural movements of the sixties gathered steam, one of its first splinter groups was the Jesus freaks. In addition to culturally hip pastors, the scene produced a handful of musicians who brazenly coupled rock & roll music with lyrics that reflected a Christian world - view and often became an outright evangelistic tool. Jesus music was born. Raised By Wolves is about this music. It trac...