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- Title: Songs Formed by Cultures, Culture Formed by Song: Evaluating and Using Song Genres in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Critical Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 281 KB
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When we open our hymnals on Sunday morning, what do we sing? Old favorites? Newer praise song? A piece from the global church? Such questions have long been with us, but with the publication of Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) they have a fresh urgency. This new primary worship resource for the ELCA continues the move toward a broader collection of hymn and song resources for our worship. Lutheran Book of Worship included hymns from locations such as India, Czechoslovakia, and Liberia in addition to the usual European and American suspects. The supplement With One Voice took bold steps (for Lutherans) especially in the direction of Spanish-language song and pieces from Africa. It also opened the door to at least a conservative sampling of music from what has been labeled the "contemporary" stream. With this new resource in ELW, though, it becomes difficult to ignore the presence of the global church among us. (It might be noted that although I was involved in the preparation of music for that publication, I had only a minimal role in the selection of that music.) Many African traditions are represented, as are many countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The Asian church, too, makes inroads, though more tentatively because the structure of much Asian song makes it more difficult for untrained Western singers. And there is more contemporary song. The selection may not satisfy many who use that style of music on a weekly basis, but it must be remembered that this is a "legacy" resource--one intended to be used for 25 years or so--and that complicates the inclusion of music which almost by definition is not intended to be used for a long period of time.
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