I'm very pleased to note that the full text of the article by Ian and me on this subject, from Studies in Church History 42 (2006), is now available as part of SAS-Space. It follows the reactions of the Anglican church-musical "establishment" to the experimentation with church pop from the late fifties until the early nineties, with a particular focus on reactions to Geoffrey Beaumont's Folk Mass.
See also an earlier post on Beaumont.
Stations on the road to a non-liturgical time
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From time to time churches decide that their liturgies need to be revised.
Such revisions are rarely easy, since the religious life for many people
depends...
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