Contemporary Congregational Songs
This chapter initially focuses on the contested nomenclature for this genre, including its historical evolution and theological justifications. Space is given to addressing the particularly problematic term, ‘Praise and Worship’. The chapter then proceeds
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Meaning-Making in the Contemporary Congregational Song Genre
Daniel Thornton
Meaning-Making in the Contemporary Congregational Song Genre
Daniel Thornton Alphacrucis College Parramatta, NSW, Australia
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Foreword
Serious academic studies of contemporary congregational music have been around since the mid-1990s. Over that time, scholars have approached the topic from a range of theological, sociological, economic, and musicological lenses. Musically, discussion has largely come out of the discipline of popular music studies, which considers the cultural/structural/political elements at work, as well as the musical. What Daniel Thornton does in this volume is take a very deep dive into the musicological while considering the everyday experiences of people as they create and perform congregational music, or engage with it spiritually, and the other folks who just ‘like it’. Although this book references and dissects many of the greatest congregational songs of our modern time, this is not a book about what is great. This is a book about what the music sounds like, what it is doing, how people are seeking to (re)produce it, and how it is affecting the lives of those who engage with it. This is a book about how everyday congregants perform this music and own it within their lives and their faith. As with much research in this discipline, Thornton brings years, dare I say decades (!), of experience as
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