การสื่อสารผ่านบทเพลงของคริสต์ศาสนานิกายโปรเตสแตนต์ในประเทศไทย / ฐาปกรณ์ กระแสทิพย์ = Communicating via songs of the protestant church in Thailand / Thapakorn Krasaetip
This research is conducted in order to analysis lyrics and music of Christian songs for the Protestant in Thailand and to study how such songs are used in the religion activities the Protestant . Besides this, it will analysis the effect of Christian songs that the Protestant in Thailand use as the method of worship to the Christian. It is a qualitative research. The methods of data collecting are analyzing the contents the songs used in the sample group of churches. In-depth interview with 27 worship leaders, musicians, and composers are conducted as well as 40 members of the Protestant church. Participant Observation is held in 7 Protestant churches. The study’s results state that songs of the Protestant church in Thailand are an audio media which pass emotional communication to the receiver. It has two components - lyrics and element of music. The first parts – lyrics-, consists of the contents that pass the belief and gospel to the human and as well as the contents that shows the thought and feeling to the God. Hymn and contemporary worship song are the two favorite musical style used in Thailand. The difference in era shall effect the song, tempo/ rhythm beat, forms, musical instruments used to play two elements of songs In addition, the results show that the communication via the Christian songs by the Protestant church is a purposive communication consisting of 4 objectives. Firstly, they are used as a symbol of spiritual communication to the God. They are also used to transfer and cultivate to belief and gospel to human as well as using to gathering people and create an atmosphere in the worship ceremonies. Finally, It is used to emphasis the meaning and importance of each process in the worship ceremonies. This shall create and build the faith among the group of disciples which make the Christendom stronger and last forever. The pattern of applying the Christian songs in the worship ceremonies are various depending on the church leader’ s favor as well as the characters of church members. Last but not least, the results present that Christian songs affect the audiences into 2 levels - Individual Level and Christian Organization Level. For the individual, the songs can him/her in three aspects,-emotion & feelings, Knowledge & thought, and behavior. For the Christian organization level, it shows the confederation, participation and synergy.
