Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns : How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal

by Gordon, T. David

• ISBN13: 9781596381957
• ISBN10: 1596381957
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: P & R Publishing

Summary

Changes in music have affected the way we think, the way we worship-even the way we are able to worship. We are steeped in a culture of pop music that makes other genres seem strangely foreign and unhelpful. Worship has become a conflict are, rather than a source of unity. Book jacket.

Author Biography

T. David Gordon looks at these changes in worship and not only examines the problems, but also provides solutions. They are solutions of great importance to us all-because how we sing affects how we live.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 19
Introduction: My Pastoral Concerns	p. 21
Introductory Considerations	p. 39
Aesthetic Relativism	p. 53
Form and Content	p. 59
Meta-Messages	p. 65
Sacred Music?	p. 75
Three Musical Genres	p. 79
Musical Questions	p. 95
Contemporaneity as a Value	p. 103
Song and Prayer	p. 129
The Mind, Sentiment, and Sentimentality	p. 133
Ritual (Formality and Informality)	p. 141
Strategic Issues	p. 149
Concluding Thoughts	p. 169
Teaching Johnny Hymnody	p. 179
Appendix	p. 187
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