Christian Congregational Music explores the role of congregational music in Christian
religious experience, examining how musicians and worshippers perform, identify with and …

Whilst Contemporary Worship Music arose out of a desire to relate the music of the church to
the music of everyday life, this function can quickly be called into question by the diversity of …

Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the
contemporary'worship wars'–conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide …

There is an established body of literature surveying the role of language policy in identity
construction. This paper exposes an angle that has been understudied. It suggests that …

This chapter examines how, from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, print advertisements for
worship music in US Christian music magazines promised to effect a dual transformation …

This chapter argues that popular music artists can be viewed as nation builders who through
their musical pieces, performances and discourses create certain representations and …

This dissertation addresses the spiritual upsurge in the USSR that flared up despite state
atheist policies, and investigates the official and audience responses to religious and …

This chapter offers an ethnographic and historical analysis of the many church-musical
overlaps and exchanges between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Estonians. It traces several …

Composer Arvo Pärt was born in 1935 in Paide, Estonia. Following its occupation by the
Soviet Union at the conclusion of the Second World War, Estonia was incorporated as a …