How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music

Easter Sunday, 2009, was the Sunday heard ‘round the evangelical internet: NewSpring Church, the second-largest church in the Southern Baptist Convention and

Sacred Music in Secular Society is a new and challenging work asking why Christian sacred music is now appealing afresh to a wide and varied audience, both reli

When the basic conceptions of the world held by whole generations in the West are formed by popular culture, and in particular by the music that serves as its s

There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred,