The Ministry Of Music In The Black Church

Mapson's objective is to help today's pastor take the leadership in improving the worship experience through the use of music that meets the biblical norm and serves theology as a legitimate response to God.

The book ¿Music in The Black Church ¿ The Untold Story¿ is a true story written by Dr. Sylvester K. Starkes based on his 50 years in ministry. It is his lifelong journey of triumphs, up¿s, down¿s, in¿s, and out¿s. It will reveal many instances where God delivered him from the hand of his enemies. He persevered, through the storm, through the rain, through sickness and through pain, and through the talk of church folks. He knew that ministry was birthed in him; the ministry that only he alone could fulfill. The book unlocks Starkes¿ childhood, teen-hood an adulthood, all of which were saturated in ministry. Even though he spent countless hours in church, he was not exempt from being labored as a homosexual as well as having to bare false accusations. The book is comprised of 12 chapters and can be used as a music textbook as well as a testament of God¿s Grace and Mercy in action! It is filled with information pertinent to music education in music ministry.

Filled with creative and practical strategies for integrating self-care into the natural ebb and flow of vocational life, this compelling resource identifies the personal and cultural factors that influence overload and outlines plausible strategies to pull the weary pastor out of such bondage.

An indispensable guide to understanding and managing Gospel music ministry! Strongly rooted in scripture, the psychological, managerial, and Christian leadership principles behind managing Gospel music ministry are presented in a practical and accessible manner. A book that every music minister should own, and every church leader should refer to!

This book reflects opportunity for change in how "music" is defined and understood among churches of all denominations, (secular and religious).

The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from traditional subject matter such as the organ works of J.S. Bach to newer areas of inquiry including folk hymnology, women and African-American composers, music as a spiritual healer, to the music of Mormon, Shaker, Moravian, and other smaller sects. With multiple indices, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.