The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analys......more

Is contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs? In......more

Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of t......more

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Great Sacred Music, a free lunchtime concert of church music for choirs and congregations, is a regular feature of the l......more

Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.......more

Ancient practices and hymns of gratitude bolster the faith of modern believers with updated selections from Osbeck’s bes......more

An updated and repackaged classic, giving modern believers a life-changing historical view of Christian community Contem......more

Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The b......more

"More popular than Jesus." Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon’s famous assessment of the Beatl......more

"More popular than Jesus." Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon’s famous assessment of the Beatl......more

When Gilya Gerda Schmidt met him in 1986, Cantor Heiser had spent forty-six of his eighty-one years as a US citizen and ......more

The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing embraces an open-ended interpretation of socio-musical practices that can be de......more

’Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with o......more

A new edition of the comprehensive resource linking hymns and anthems to lectionary readings. The final volume in a thre......more

Christianity is a ""singing church,"" with biblical foundations and centuries of examples in the Psalms and canticles, f......more

In this inspiring guide to the power of faithful resilience, Tasha Cobbs Leonard--Grammy Award winner and Billboard’s Go......more

An exploration of Wales’s deep connections to music through one specific style: the hymn. Even as many in the modern wor......more

On a Mission to Preserve Our Worship of the Divine Sacred Music and Liturgy After Vatican II recounts the important role......more

On a Mission to Preserve Our Worship of the Divine Sacred Music and Liturgy After Vatican II recounts the important role......more

What makes sounds "religious"? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregro......more

The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, a cou......more

"The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in Ame......more

The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigate......more

A hopeful and practical model for what it means to be a Christian and a culture-maker in a world of hurt and wondrous po......more

"From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to ca......more

Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America examines the proliferation and use of popular Hebrew Zionist......more

This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence....more

Joshua Myers’s Holy Ghost Key celebrates the essential role of African music in the continuity and sustenance of African......more

Indigenous peoples of Brazil have come to faith in Christ in large numbers in recent decades. As Christianity takes root......more

Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital’s institutional, social and historical co......more

Hymns and Race examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of ......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical Christianity Few things frightened conservative white ......more

The second volume of the catalog consists of two parts preceded by an extensive Introduction. The first part covers main......more

This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were th......more

This book offers an account of the sacred music written by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in Rome, a city where the co......more

Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror th......more

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of f......more

For centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompanim......more

The classic work on Levy’s theory of negative harmony....more

Whether in difficult or delightful times, each of us seems to find a tune that either inspires or empowers us. It may be......more

Illuminates how voice, faith, and hearing become intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and mobility amid t......more

’Melodies of Worship to Jesus: 31 Songs of Praise & Worship From My Heart to HIS!’ is a soul-stirring collection of hymn......more

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�������� "Christmas Carols Sheet Music: Traditional Carols, Hymns and Popular Songs Sheet Music" �������� Christmas Fun ......more

"Letters Exhibiting the Most Prominent Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" is a widespread pai......more

Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still......more

James White’s classic Christian worship text, revised and updated. The book students of worship have read and re-read is......more

Nancy L. Graham unveils the extraordinary life of the churchman and musician, Erik Routley, the most significant hymnolo......more

Michael Joncas’s new Simple Psalter synthesizes elements of previous styles of psalm-singing into a new pattern of engag......more

Behind the glamour and the crowds. Beyond the movies and the records. Apart from all who knew him, wanted to know him, o......more

In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was ex......more

"A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, ’Amazing Grace’ lands firm......more

An Eternal Pitch examines the homiletic life and afterlife of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of th......more

The Lord’s song sings faith into people’s hearts. Music is central to the life of the church. In Church Music: For the C......more

Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. Th......more

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, co......more

Immerse yourself in the divine sounds of "The Ultimate Hymn Collection," a masterful anthology of classic Christian hymn......more

Immerse yourself in the divine sounds of "The Ultimate Hymn Collection," a masterful anthology of classic Christian hymn......more

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic c......more

Questions of authorship are central to the late thirteenth-century motet repertoire represented by the seventh section o......more

Since its first performance in 1724, J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion has captured the spiritual and musical attention of au......more

Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vi......more

Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vi......more

How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith......more

People hear and enjoy music but seldom consider how great a gift it is. God made human minds and bodies able to respond ......more

This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject throug......more

Phish has a diehard fan base and a dedicated community of enthusiasts--called Phishheads--who follow the band around the......more

Preparing our minds for rehearsal, listening to our singers, and making those moments last, choir directors have a compl......more

As death comes out of the closet in contemporary society, this book presents the views on heaven and the afterlife of a ......more

Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It cover......more

This six-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of the authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern......more

Song book of inspiration came about during Covid-19. During covid-19 we were all locked down and isolated from friends a......more

One of America’s great rock and roll pioneers, Richie Furay played alongside Neil Young and Stephen Stills in Buffalo Sp......more