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Servanthood of Song: Music, Ministry, and the Church in the United States

By: Stanley R. McDaniel

'Servanthood of Song' is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today.

Becoming What We Sing: Formation through Contemporary 91ÁÔÆæ Music

By: David Lemley

This book draws on cultural criticism, ethnomusicology, and liturgical and sacramental theology to process the deluge of the contemporary in today’s worship music.


Sermons That Sing: Music and the Practice of Preaching

By: Noel Snyder

Preaching and music are both regular elements of Christian worship across the theological spectrum. But they often don't interact or inform each other in meaningful ways.

Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and 91ÁÔÆæ

By: Lester Ruth

This book investigates topics in both Pentecostal and mainline branches of contemporary praise worship, looking at subjects little explored by prior work.


The Whole Church Sings: Congregational Singing in Luther's Wittenberg

By: Robin A. Leaver

Authoritative study by a renowned musicologist and Reformation scholar presenting new research that congregational singing was both the intention and the practice right from the beginning of the Wittenberg reforms in worship.

Singing God's Psalms

By: Fred R. Anderson

Drawing on his decades of experience as a pastor, hymn writer, and hymnal consultant, Fred Anderson here offers pastors and worship leaders a rich treasury of singable psalms — one for each psalm text or canticle appointed in the three-year Revised Common Lectionary.