CONTENTS: Foreword, Preface, Table of Transliterations, Introduction, 1. Music and Life, 2. Music in Worship, 3. Salient Aspects of Bhakti Music, 4. Bhakti Sankirtanas, 4. Bhakti Sankirtanas, 5. tural Roots of Sacred Music, 6. Origin of Christian Kirtanas, 7. The Trinity of Christian Kirtanas, 8. Purushothama Choudhary: An Archetype of Christian Kirtanas, 10. Purushothama, the True Telugu Psalmist, 11. The Golden Period of Telugu Christian Kirtanas, 12. The Question about the Roots of Christian Hymns, Appendices, Bibliography.