Scholars who address religious music making in general, and Christian church music in particular, use “performance” in a variety of ways and under varying constellations of assumptions, creating confusion around the term and its uses. Similar complications characterize the way church music practitioners talk about performance. This dissertation is an investigation of church music through …
That the landscape of corporate worship among Southern Baptist churches in America has changed drastically in the last fifty years is an inescapable fact…
Baptist pastors such as Jason Lothrop and Jairus Handy published regional hymn collections for local conference meetings and private social gatherings.
This presentation will explore the life and works of E.E. Ayres.
Description: Baptists began including chants in their hymnals through the influence of Lowell Mason and the Better Music Movement. The extensive influence that Mason, his colleagues, and his students—among them William Bradbury—had throughout Protestant America...
Early Western missionaries to Asia, Africa, and South America have often been criticized for bringing not only the gospel, but also Western culture to the lands in which they…
This presentation will focus on the examination of five hymnals published over the span of seventy years; Used within Southern Baptist churches abroad.
William (Singing Billy) Walker, 1809-1875: A Bicentennial Tribute.
This presentation will provide a historical overview and assess the current status of women involved in Baptist music ministry.
The purpose of this presentation is to take a look back through the Baptist Hymnal published in 2008 by LifeWay Christian Resources to see what it tells us about the worship culture of Baptist churches today.
Early hymnody within the emerging Baptist churches in Scotland was influenced, primarily, by the relatively recent events of the Scottish Reformation…
This discussion concerns the hymns of the Baptist presidents. While it has much interesting material, this session can only be completely understood as supplemental…
A Chinese hymnal, just as a Western one, reflects to one degree or another where the church is and where it is moving. Chinese hymnody began with twenty-seven leaves…
Description: The newly-constituted United States of America experienced the second great religious revival during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Because of its magnitude as a revival movement and its pervasive influence on the future of American...
Daniel Brink Towner stood at the center of the development of Southern Baptist music education in the early part of the twentieth century…