Victoria R. Sirota

Servanthood of Song

Preaching & Worship

“Stanley McDaniel’s Servanthood of Song is an extraordinary accomplishment, a terrific textbook on American sacred music from the eighteenth century to the present, and a handbook for every musician working in a religious setting. McDaniel deftly connects popular and sacred culture and discusses liturgical renewal, academia’s struggles with teaching sacred music, perfectionism, blended worship, denominational polity, and dwindling congregations. The sheer breadth of this work is staggering, as is McDaniel’s own clarity about music as a called ministry.”