Why Catholics Can't Sing by Thomas Day

Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste by Thomas Day

About The Book:

This book is about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community as reflected in the way Christians worship.

Praise

"The book that had to be written, and has to be read."
—America

"A book certain to elicit both furious denunciation and standing ovations.
—The Christian Century

"If you are a Baptist, read this book. Or a Lutheran, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Whatever. Roman Catholics (of course) should read it. Day is writing about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community-as reflected in the way Christians worship. Scathingly witty and relentlessly honest, his book is a bracing tonic. Be assured, you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy, and learn from, Why Catholics Can't Sing!"
—First Things

"Every pastor in the country, every church musician, every liturgist ought to read this book and examine his or her own conscience."
—Andrew M. Greeley

"Day grabs one's attention and does not let it go. Every page is interesting, and what he is writing strikes one as eminently true."
—Sacred Music

"This is a dangerous book. It is about music but it is also about much more than music, because music is not, contrary to Stravinski's in-famous remark, about music alone."
—Crisis

"Finally, someone with knowledge and expertise has had the courage to stand up and declare that the emperor has no clothes. In your heart, you'll know he's right."
—Praying

"We needed this book, had it coming!"
—J. F. Powers

About The Author

Thomas Day, chairman of the music department at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, is a Catholic Press Award winner who con siders himself neither liberal nor conservative but has a habit of pleasing and offending both factions at once.

Cover design by Mike Mciver