...Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 Music as Cultural Expression in Black Church Theology and Worship Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. In 1898 W E. B. DuBois stated that the three key elements of the black church worship experience were the preacher, the music...

...Michael G. Hayes Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The Theology ol the Bla,k Penteiostal Praise Song Michael G. Hayes Black religious music and black theology are correlative in meaning. From the beginning, black music has sprung from black theology as a meaningful and life...

...Angela Spence Nelson Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Theology in the Hip-Hop ol Pub/it Enemy and Koo/Moe Dee Angela Spence Nelson The racial oppression of black people in many ways has fueled and shaped black musical forms in America. One example is the blues, which originated...

...Robert M. Shelton Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Doing Theology with Willie Nelson Robert M. Shelton The eminent theologian Karl Barth writes in his renowned Church Dogmatics: "Dogmatics is the self-examination of the Christian church in respect of the content...

...Orea Jones Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 ffle Theology ol 11Sexu11I Healing": Marvin Gaye Orea Tones Shot to death by his father on the day before his forty-fifth birthday in 19841 singer and performing artist Marvin Gaye was a troubled man who lived a tormented life...

...Earlston E. DeSilva Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 ffte Theology olB/11,k Power and B/11,k Song: Jomes Brown Earlston E. DeSilva James Brown is an Afro-American performing artist and soul singer who reigned as "Soul Brother No. 1" during the sixties and seventies, and whose...

...Jon Michael Spencer © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 A Theology for the Blues Jon Michael Spencer Toward a Black Blues Theology Blues is an expression of black theology. The theological content in blues songs and in the oral beliefs of bluespeople was organic to the evolution...

...Henry Hugh Proctor © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 The Theology of the Songs of the Southern Slave Henry Hugh Proctor This essay was Rev. Henry Hugh Proctor's (1868-1933) Bachelor of Divinity degree thesis at Yale School of Divinity in 1894. Having received his undergraduate...

...Mark D. Hulsether Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Jesus and Madonna: North American Liberation Theologies and Secular Popular Music Mark D. Hulsether Tomorrow I am scheduled to speak to my church's youth group on the topic "Jesus and Madonna" (yes, the Madonna who sings...

... studies of music and culture and that it cannot be said that ethnomusicologists neglect the sacred dimensions of music or are unwilling to consult scholars of theology. Thus, shall not this volume in hand be our last will and testament, particularly given that the worse was yet to be said? I am speaking...

... student in practical theology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. 1. Mickey Hart, Drumming at the Edge of Magic (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 19901, 22. Black Sacred Music 8:1, Spring 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press. CCC 1043-945 5/94/$1.50 Religion, Rocle, and Research 19 materia...

... theology: a theology in which human beings are seen as one kind of ontological reality and the Earth and animals as quite another. When we listen to the Earth and animals through this dualistic theological filter, we fail to hear the sounds of the Earth in their sacred quality. Rather, we hear the Earth's...

..., sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Theomusicology uses the social sciences to procure empirical data which it then subjects to theological interpretation. Where theology proper is unequipped to critique the irreligious, theomusicology employs philosophy inasmuch as this discipline has given extensive...

... and the Sacred: Toward a Theology of Culture in Decline. New York: Crossroad, 1981. Greeley, Andrew. God in Popular Culture. Chicago: Thomas More, 1988. Hammond, Phillip E., ed. The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in the Scientific Study of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985 . Hart...

... question that derived, appropriately enough, from his attempt to delimit common interests between ethnomusicology and theology. The preeminent question was not "Is All Music Religious? 11 -the title of his brief article. It was, "Is there a common ethnomusicological language about music and religion...

..., appropriately enough, from his attempt to delimit common interests between ethnomusicology and theology. The preeminent question was not "Is All Music Religious? 1'-the title of his brief article. It was, "Is there a common ethnomusicological language about music and religion that forms into a more explicit...

..., for instance, atrinitarians who feel that their only alternative to rejecting orthodox Christian doctrines is to deny theism altogether. For these (a)theists, God is by no means dead and a theology can be excavated, not from their reasoning, but from the depths of their hearts, which are not yet godless...

...William Cheek; Aimee Lee Cheek 60 Blodc SoaedMusk not make the same mistakes that liberation theology has made in the past-claiming that God is the liberator of the oppressed without accounting for the actual lack of liberation at levels and in areas that elude national attention. Before...

... societies theology is merely another aspect of the oral tradition. It is done in the fields by the masses in the traditional languages through the vehicles of song, sermon, teaching, prayer, conversation, and so forth.6 Music, as oral theology, is a theology of the open air, so 4. Ali Mazrui states, "Africa...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Con,lusion The caption of an article in a local newspaper announcing the First Conference in Theomusicology at Duke University's Divinity School read, "Divinity School Conference To Look for Theology in Popular Music."1...