Worship Musician September 2019 | Page 44

SONGWRITING IMPACT, SONGWRITING, AND THE CHURCH - PART 2 | Alex MacDougall In my last article, I noted some of the criteria Although impact in and from the church Modern Man” in 1966, with over 17,500,000 that supplies the backdrop for music and during the 60’s can certainly be highlighted in just 3 years, the church was largely absent composition. There certainly has been an by the 1) introduction of the acoustic guitar from writing and releasing music that hugely aggregate of underlying factors shaping the in the Catholic church’s “folk mass”; (2) the impacted itself and the general public. music of the past 100 years! With everything incredible sales (50,000,000) of Alexander going on in the 60’s, the album covers shown Scourby’s audio recordings of the Bible for the But there was a “perfect storm” brewing below exhibit what was not going on in American Bible Society (50’s and 60’s), and (3) culturally. The Apostle Paul wrote, “Where Christian music. the New Testament release of “Good News For sin increased, grace increased all the more” 44 September 2019 Subscribe for Free...