{"product_id":"shout-to-the-lord-9781479844685","title":"Shout to the Lord","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusic is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with worship. For those who assume responsibility for making music for congregational use, the relationship between music and worship is both promising and perilous  promise in the power of musical style and collective singing to facilitate worship, peril in the possibility that the experience of the music might eclipse the worship it was written to facilitate. As a result, those committed to making music for worship are constantly reminded of the paradox that they are writing songs for people who wish to express themselves, as directly as possible, to God. \u003cbr\u003eThis book shines a new light on how people who make music for worship also make worship from music. Based on interviews with\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShout to the Lord\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book, beautifully written and analytically careful. Music is the heart of evangelical experience, so the book helps to explain that religion. But the book does more. It explains the way music can become prayer, and why it moves us. -- TM Luhrmann,author of When God Talks Back\u003cbr\u003eSongs and music are used in worship to help congregants reach an individual experience of God. But, as Ari Kelman shows, that individual experience only comes about because of the work of songwriters, marketers, and music producers who mediate individual religious experience. Shout to the Lordis a study of that work. Drawing on ethnography, interviews and participation in church services Kelman explores how worship music is produced, performed and experienced in U.S. evangelical churches. In doing so he masterfully draws out a series of fundamental tensions between entertainment and worship, technical skill and spirit, commerce and faith, and the danger troubling Christian musicians that they might \u0026amp; sing well but worship poorly. -- Brian Larkin,author of Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure \u0026amp; Urban Culture in Nigeria\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating book. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and dozens of interviews with songwriters, worship leaders, and record producers, Kelman reveals the immense cultural work that goes into producing evangelical Christian worship music. He is a sensitive guide, treating his subjects sympathetically while remaining keenly attuned to the tensions that underlie their work. He is at his best in explaining how his subjects understand the essential role that music plays in worship even as they disavow its necessity. -- Isaac Weiner,author of Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShout to the Lord\u003c\/i\u003e, Kelman meticulously elucidates for his academic readership the internal logics that undergird American evangelical cultural production. Because the study reflects the author’s generosity and responsibility toward his interlocutors, evangelical musical practitioners will find their histories and perspectives presented with patient nuance. This monograph on evangelical worship music, read in careful conjunction with the extant and burgeoning literature in Christian congregational music studies, promises to be an especially productive read for students and researchers of American religion, Christian liturgy, and popular music. -- Reading Religion\u003cbr\u003eAn insightful and well-researched examination of the creation of worship music in American evangelicalism and the worship music culture it has birthed. Kelman’s work is not just an analysis of religious and sociological scholarship—it is an experiment in understanding where he immersed himself into various corporate worship settings that span several years. * Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409075577175,"sku":"9781479844685","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479844685.jpg?v=1730505348","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shout-to-the-lord-9781479844685","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}