(RNS) — The most popular worship song in churches these days is “Build My Life,” from Bethel Music, the megachurch-based worship music hit machine based in Northern California. Sitting at number one ...

THE techniques and repertoire of traditional African music are handed down by word of mouth. There are skilled musicians who make music their profession. However, participation in music is generally ...

Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the songs ...

(RNS) — A new study looked at how worship leaders pick music for services — at a time when a handful of megachurches dominate the market. (RNS) — For the past decade, a handful of megachurches have ...

Historian Bill Doggett reflects on the influence of Black women on American music, from the earliest recorded spirituals to today. The poignancy of the opening words of the Negro Spiritual belie a ...

A study finds an increasingly rapid turnover time for church music. Churches across the US and Canada sang, “Refiner’s fire / my heart’s one desire / is to be holy” for a full decade after Vineyard ...

With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church? When worship leader Jonathan ...

The songs featured in this five-part series on African music are oddities, especially compared to today’s hits. In an age dominated by dull one-hit wonders that are quickly forgotten, artists of the ...

Call to Worship Global’s 17th Anniversary ‘Night of Worship’ – this year headlined by top South African gospel singer Ntokozo Mbano, along with Zimbabwe’s own Janet Manyowa – lived up to its top ...