About the Book

Church and Worship Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of church music. Church music is a rich field of study, both in traditional musicology courses and music-education programs aimed at training choral directors for religious and secular positions. Over the past decades, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from traditional subject matter such as the organ works of J.S. Bach to newer areas of inquiry including folk hymnology, women and African-American composers, music as a spiritual healer, to the music of Mormon, Shaker, Moravian, and other smaller sects. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decades.