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Open Up the Doors
Mark Evans
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Description for Open Up the Doors
Paperback. Represents an attempt to provide objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed. This book also considers how well modern music is serving the modern church, and also how effectively it is operating as a musical form in the secular culture that surrounds it. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
There has been much passionate debate and emotion aroused by the introduction of contemporary music styles into the modern church. While these debates have rarely produced a victor, the detrimental effects of them have resonated throughout many Protestant churches worldwide. Rather than simply fuelling this debate further, "Open Up The Doors" represents an attempt to provide objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed. The latest music from Hillsong, Soul Survivor, Parachute, Vineyard, Christian City and others is examined in order to reveal both the beneficial and dangerous trends occurring ... Read more
There has been much passionate debate and emotion aroused by the introduction of contemporary music styles into the modern church. While these debates have rarely produced a victor, the detrimental effects of them have resonated throughout many Protestant churches worldwide. Rather than simply fuelling this debate further, "Open Up The Doors" represents an attempt to provide objective criteria and analytical frameworks by which the quality and function of contemporary congregational music can be assessed. The latest music from Hillsong, Soul Survivor, Parachute, Vineyard, Christian City and others is examined in order to reveal both the beneficial and dangerous trends occurring ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845531874
SKU
V9781845531874
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Ref
99-2
About Mark Evans
Mark Evans is the Head of Contemporary Music Studies and Director of Creative Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is also the Co-Editor of Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture and is widely published in the areas of religious music and film music. His last volume, Markets and Margins: Australian Country Music was ... Read more
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