Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Personal Inductions -- 1. Contextualising Contemporary Congregational Music -- 1. Contemporary Christian Music as Popular Music -- 2. Contemporary Christian Music as Vernacular Music -- 3. Participation or Performance: Unravelling the Roles of the Church Musician -- 2. 'Nothing New Under the Sun': Learning from History -- 1. Congregational Music: Historical Trajectories -- 2. The Biblical Basis for Music in the Church -- 3. Ending the Corporate Worship Wars -- 1. Music as Worship -- 2. Corporate Worship Wars -- 4. Resistance or Accommodation: The 'World' of Quality -- 5. The Rise and Rise of Pentecostal Music: History, Hillsong and Star Texts -- History and Antecedents -- 6. Theomusicological Frameworks for Congregational Song Analysis -- 1. Engaging Theomusicology -- 2. Rethinking 'Praise' Songs -- 3. The Body of Christ -- 7. Corporate Worship GetsPersonal -- 1. 'As For Me…' -- 2. Looking Ahead and Looking Back -- 8. Conclusion: 'When the Music Fades' -- 1. Imagination and Variation -- 2. General Congregational Song Trends -- 3. The Heart of Contemporary Congregational Song -- Appendix: Song Classification and Analysis -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Index to Bible References -- Subject Index.