Why Johnny can't sing hymns : how pop culture rewrote the hymnal / T. David Gordon.
By: Gordon, T. David.
Material type: BookPublisher: Phillipsburg, N.J. : P & R PUBLISHING 2010Description: 187 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781596381957.Subject(s): Church music -- Philosophy and aesthetics | Popular culture -- InfluenceDDC classification: 781.87009/04Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | ML3869 .G67 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | 12832 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : my pastoral concerns -- Introductory considerations -- Aesthetic relativism -- Form and content -- Meta-messages -- "Sacred music"? -- Three musical genres -- Musical questions -- Contemporaneity as a value -- Song and prayer -- The mind, sentiment, and sentimentality -- Ritual (formality and informality) -- Strategic issues -- Concluding thoughts -- Teaching Johnny hymnody.
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