1st Edition

Contemporary Worship Music and Everyday Musical Lives

By Mark Porter Copyright 2017
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

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 musical lives present in contemporary society. Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals’ musical lives away from a Contemporary Worship Music environment and their diverse experiences of music... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction – The Quest to Understand Diverse Musical Experiences

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene

Chapter 2: Music, Attachment, Ethics and Community

Chapter 3: Bridging Worlds Through Common Modes of Being in Music

Chapter 4: Boundaries – Communal and Private, Spiritual and Secular

Chapter 5: At the Edges – Value Transfer, Judgments, Discontent

Chapter 6: Alternative Musical Spaces

Conclusion

Appendix A: Morning Service Repertoire List – January 2012

Appendix B: Worship Team Agreement 2013/14

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Mark Porter

[Applying rhe discipline of enthnomusicology to issues of faith and practice] is an important question to explore, and Porter approaches it with great subtlety. David Martin, Church Times Review