Why Johnny can't sing hymns
Subtitle: how pop culture rewrote the hymnal
By: T. David Gordon.
Publisher: P & R Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Phillipsburg, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596381957
Subjects: Church music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Popular culture -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : my pastoral concerns; title: Introductory considerations; title: Aesthetic relativism; title: Form and content; title: Meta-messages; title: "Sacred music"?; title: Three musical genres; title: Musical questions; title: Contemporaneity as a value; title: Song and prayer; title: The mind, sentiment, and sentimentality; title: Ritual (formality and informality); title: Strategic issues; title: Concluding thoughts; title: Teaching Johnny hymnody.