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CCM and Church Music (with John Ahern)

Alastair's Adversaria

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Text and Music

Music is one of the things that most brings us together as communities. The old notion of music being a reflection of heaven, and music making the church millicent, presupposes certain things. A model of musical economy in which everyone is a participant doesn't turn out to be very suited to post industrial society. But there's something i think inherently wrong about that model because you're not this bunch of chords underneath it.

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