TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,T.David
TI  - Why Johnny can't sing hymns: how pop culture rewrote the hymnal 
SN  - 9781596381957 (pbk.)
AV  - ML 3869 .G67 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Phillipsburg, N.J.
PB  - P & R Pub.
KW  - Church music
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Influence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : my pastoral concerns -- Introductory considerations -- Aesthetic relativism -- Form and content -- Meta-messages -- "Sacred music"? -- Three musical genres -- Musical questions -- Contemporaneity as a value -- Song and prayer -- The mind, sentiment, and sentimentality -- Ritual (formality and informality) -- Strategic issues -- Concluding thoughts -- Teaching Johnny hymnody
N2  - In this book, I attempt to locate some of the cultural forces that have caused hymns to sound so foreign to this generation that they feel they need to replace them with something contemporary.  I also express misgivings about this circumstance. - Author website
ER  -