Ideologies of the Acoustic Guitar in Contemporary Worship Music
byLast semester I taught a popular music history course. When we got to music of the early 1990s, one of my students started singing…
Last semester I taught a popular music history course. When we got to music of the early 1990s, one of my students started singing…
Last week the BBC reported on an experimental venture of the European Commission called ‘beaming’.[1] The idea is this: given the time, expense, and…
Ben Saunders, Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes (New York: Continuum, 2011). 178 pages. Only half-jokingly I occasionally recommend to my…
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 3-part series on Art Prize by guest contributor, Chris Brewer. Brewer started with an introduction to the competition (published 11 April), followed…
Martin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford University Press, 2012). 368 pages. What images deserve the status of ‘icon’? In his…
You may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts….
In a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s…