RT Article
T1 Holiness and Worldliness
JF Pneuma
VO 38
IS 4
SP 394
OP 410
A1 Andemicael, Awet
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1562132490
AB What was truly distinctive about the black Gospel music style of the Sanctified Church was its extensive use of musical instruments previously associated with “the world.” Yet, this fact presents a theological conundrum. The very churches that were so enthusiastically “embracing” the Gospel style were, at the same time, ardently emphasizing strict moral living and the repudiation of all things carnal. In this article, I suggest lines of theological reasoning that may have informed early black Holiness and pentecostal Christians in their widespread liturgical use of the Gospel style. Drawing on primary source material from COGIC founding Bishop Charles Mason, I expand Lawrence Levine’s model of the relationship between early black Sanctified churches and the secular black musical world and argue that a more nuanced conception of the Christ-world relation than is generally assumed may have undergirded Sanctified development of early Gospel music.
K1 black Gospel music : Sanctified Church : Charles Mason : holiness and worldliness : instrumental music : dance : Holy Spirit : sacred and secular
DO 10.1163/15700747-03804003