Adam Wood offers an explanation as to why major publishers keep rendering prose texts as awkward metrical songs with a beat. He is speaking as someone who once thought this effort was kind of cool.
I'm not sure I follow the thinking but I trust that he knows what he is talking about.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Faux-Tribalism in Catholic Music
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