From Singing “Out-of-Tone” to Creating Contextualized Cantonese Contemporary Worship Songs: Hong Kong in the Decentralization of Chinese Christianity
For over a century, Hong Kong Christians have sung Chinese hymns in an “out-of-tone” manner. Lyrics in traditional hymnals were translated or written to be sung in Mandarin, the national language, but most locals speak Cantonese, another Sinitic and tonal language. Singing goes “out-of-tone” when Ma...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 6 |
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Hong Kong
B Contextualization B Chinese Christianity B Contemporary Worship B Cantonese |
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