Table of Contents

A. Preface 1. Contextualising Congregational Music 2. Nothing New Under The Sun: Learning From History 3. Ending The Corporate Worship Wars 4. Resistance or Accommodation: The 'World' of Quality 5. The Rise and Rise of Pentecostal Music 6. Theomusicological Frameworks for Congregational Song Analysis 7. Congregational Song Gets Personal 8. Conclusion: When The Music Fades 9. Appendix: Song Classification and Analysis

About the Author

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 published by the Australian Institute of Country Music Press in 2005. A practicing musician, he has been actively involved in writing, producing and performing congregational music for over 15 years.

Reviews

In this important book, Evans has raised the level of conversation about worship music far above the too typical Us vs. Them.
Paul Jacobson, Reviews in Religion and TheologyTheologically literate evangelical musicians who want to think through why we sing what we sing in church are going to find this a useful publication to consult. And as the number of books in the 'useful' category are vanishingly small, it is worth knowing about this one!
Gordon Cheng, The Sola Panel