Why Catholics Can't Sing by Thomas Day

Why Catholics Can't Sing by Thomas Day

In this informative and entertaining critique of music in the Catholic Church, Thomas Day outlines a stinging indictment of the influence of popular culture on American Catholicism, particularly as expressed in church music. Taking aim at the Irish-American repertoire of songs that overwhelms Catholic music in America, Day assails the secularization of liturgical practices that began, in the author's view, with the Second Vatican Council in 1962. And while targeting the demise of services, Day remains optimistic, offering several key solutions to revitalize and nurture the latent vitality that remains among the parishioners of the American Catholic Church.

"Day writes with a verve and wickedly humorous style that one wouldn't expect to find in a book on this kind of subjectHis way with a phrase frequently has one laughing out loud as he skewers the people who perpetrated this musical assault on the American Catholic congregation." --J. Michael

Thomas Day is the chair of the music department at Salve Regina University where he teaches music and humanities courses. He is an active composer and member of the American Guild of Organists, the American Musicological Society, and the College Music Society, and is the author of Where Have You Gone, Michelangelo?: The Loss of Soul in Catholic Culture. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

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ISBN 13	9780824549848
ISBN 10	0824549848
Title	Why Catholics Can't Sing
Author	Thomas Day
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Crossroad Publishing Co ,U.S.
Year published	2013-10-04
Number of pages	192
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