My question is addressing the different shapes and sounds of the music that is offered as "Church" music; i.e. the gospel rap and contemporary sounds of today. What (if any) impact do you think it has in and on the world today??????

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2002

Answers

There are several historical threads on this site that touch on your question. They include:

• The Role of Sacred Music
• What is your favoritie inspirational song?
• What About Singing the Blues?
• What Is Happening On the Gospel Music Scene?
• Ken Burns' Documentary on Jazz
• What do you think of when you hear "How Great Thou Art"?
• Should Church Music Sound Different From Secular Music?
• One Word in Music, It's DYN-O-MITE!
• Blending of Music
• Why isn't the AME Church Training Musicians?
• What are some Good Classical CDs?
• Motown Music and Religion
• What Gospel CD Should I Buy?

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2002

APologies: during my cut-and-paste building of the list above, some of the links were broken (yielding the error message "Couldn't find..."). Try it from here:

• The Role of Sacred Music
• What is your favoritie inspirational song?
• What About Singing the Blues?
• What Is Happening On the Gospel Music Scene?
• Ken Burns' Documentary on Jazz
• What do you think of when you hear "How Great Thou Art"?
• Should Church Music Sound Different From Secular Music?
• One Word in Music, It's DYN-O-MITE!
• Blending of Music
• Why isn't the AME Church Training Musicians?
• What are some Good Classical CDs?
• Motown Music and Religion
• What Gospel CD Should I Buy?

-- Anonymous, June 06, 2002

Greetings

Never mind rap or pop, take the most solemn music you have today, organ/pipe/or piano and just rank it against music in the early times. They would then have asked you where are you going with that kind of music

Nothing changes, just let go and let God direct you

Love

Clive

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2002