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The poet George Herbert (1593–1633) has long been recognised as a musical poet: his earliest biographers described him as the ‘sweet singer of the Temple’ and recorded that his ‘chiefest recreation was Musick’, playing the lute and viol and singing settings of his verse.

This paper explores the semiotic dimensions of gospel performance, with a focus on how gospel has been presented and perceived within high-profile British state ceremonies and popular music.

Born in Algiers during the 1930s, Algerian «chaâbi» (a word meaning «popular» in arabic) results from appropriations of Andalusian music, Kabyle songs, but also jazz and french songs.

In 1786, Johann Gottfried Herder wrote that the imagination was ‘still the most unexplored and the most unexplorable of all the human powers of the soul.’ Nevertheless, the imagination received a great deal of attention in German philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology during Herder’s lifetime and well into the twentieth century.

Drawing on his experiences as a choral conductor, gospel musician, and music educator, Dr. Jeffrey Murdock is developing a comprehensive textbook dedicated to the performance practices of Gospel Music while in residence at Wolfson College during 2024-2025.