Open Up the Doors - Music in the Modern Church - Mark Evans
Resistance or Accommodation: The ‘World’ of Quality
Open Up the Doors - Music in the Modern Church - Mark Evans
Mark Evans [+]
Macquarie University
Mark Evans is Head of the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University and is co-editor of Perfect Beat - The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture. He has published articles on a range of topics, including: the use of sound in the 'Matrix' films; copyright; CD-Rom; Christian music; rock journalism; and country music in Australia. He is also a pianist and has recorded and performed in various contemporary styles.He is the author of Open up the Doors: Music in the Modern Church (2006) and editor of the Encyclopedia of Film Music and Sound (Equinox, forthcoming).
Description
One of the great plagues on modern church music has been its designation as a music that merely apes the culture around it and thus subsumes the sanctity of the gospel through dilution with the evils of the world. This is not to deny that modern congregational song bears witness to the inuences and stylistic sensibilities of popular music.