Church Music In Missionary And Independent African Churches

Missionaries from Europe and North America brought to Africa many Western forms of music and worship. In the last several years, especially after Vatican II, Africans have developed more indigenous approaches to music in worship. The fascinating diversity of current musical practices is documented in this survey of independent African churches. The Influence of Western Music in African Churches The Christian ancestry of Ethiopia is unique in Africa, but in the last few decades Christianity has blossomed in many other areas of the continent. Some African countries have a higher percentage of followers than the Western European nations that first evangelized them. Africa is a huge continent, and a survey of its Christian music here cannot even begin to be exhaustive. Through brief and selective views, therefore, the following chapters trace the steady climb that Christianity is making-away from Western trappings and dogma to a faith which expresses African priorities, fully absorbed i…