Christian Congregational Music: Performance, Identity and Experience
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Overview
Christian Congregational Music explores the role of congregational music in Christian religious experience, examining how musicians and worshippers perform, identify with and experience belief through musical praxis. Contributors from a broad range of fields, including music studies, theology, literature, and cultural anthropology, present interdisciplinary perspectives on a variety of congregational musical styles - from African American gospel music, to evangelical praise and worship music, to Mennonite hymnody - within contemporary Europe and North America.
In addressing the themes of performance, identity and experience, the volume explores several topics of interest to a broader humanities and social sciences readership, including the influence of globalization and mass mediation on congregational music style and performance; the use of congregational music to shape multifaceted identities; the role of mass mediated congregational music in shaping transnational communities; and the function of music in embodying and imparting religious belief and knowledge. In demonstrating the complex relationship between ’traditional’ and ’contemporary’ sounds and local and global identifications within the practice of congregational music, the plurality of approaches represented in this book, as well as the range of musical repertoires explored, aims to serve as a model for future congregational music scholarship.
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- Aims to serve as a model for future congregational music scholarship
- Explores the many roles that congregational music plays within Christian communities
- Provides ethnographic and historical case studies, analytical perspectives and theological ruminations on congregational music
- Draws on perspectives from across academic disciplines in order to illuminate the ways in which music-making in and by congregations reflects and shapes the performance of theology, the interplay of identities and religious experience
Performing Theology
- On One Accord: Resounding the Past in the Present at One African American Church
- ‘Praise Is What We Do’: The Rise of Praise and Worship Music in the Black Church in the US
- Tune Your Music to Your Heart: Reflections for Church Music Leaders
- Jazz and Anglican Spirituality? Some Notes on Connections
Interplay of Identities
- Making Borrowed Songs: Mennonite Hymns, Appropriation and Media
- New Music for New Times?: Debates over Catholic Congregational Music in Hungary
- ‘I’ll Take you There’: The Promise of Transformation in the Marketing of Worship Media in US Christian Music Magazines
- (Hillsong) United Through Music: Praise and Worship Music and the Evangelical ‘Imagined Community’
Experience and Embodiment
- The Sensual Theology of the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church
- Worship, Transcendence and Danger: Reflections on Seigfried Kracauer’s ‘The Hotel Lobby’
- ‘Really Worshipping’, not ‘Just Singing’
- Moving Between Musical Worlds: Worship Music, Significance and Ethics in the Lives of Contemporary Worshippers
- Gordon Adnams
- Will Boone
- June Boyce-Tillman
- Jonathan Dueck
- Sarah Eyerly
- Gesa Hartje-Döll
- Monique Ingalls
- Carolyn Landau
- Anna Nekola
- Martyn Percy
- Deborah Smith Pollard
- Mark Porter
- Kinga Povedák
- Martin D. Stringer
- Tom Wagner
A fascinating and down-to-earth exploration of congregational music in action, from the relatively new (but much-needed) perspectives of ethnomusicology.
Jeremy Begbie, Duke University, USA
Music has become the real distinguishing mark between Churches. If worship shapes Christian communities, then what we sing is crucially significant. Christian Congregational Music brings together an exciting range of scholars from musicology, worship studies and theology to explore this important area. This interdisciplinary conversation is essential for the self-understanding of the Church and for ecumenical dialogue.
Pete Ward, King's College London, UK
Diversity is a key word in describing the material. In style it ranges from personal apologias for specific genres of congregational song to objective reflection on liturgical and musicological phenomena.
American Book Review
...theologians and musicologists alike will find much thought-provoking material in this book.
Church Times
The content of the book is comprehensive and detailed and deserves attention as a necessary stimulus to (particularly feminist) theologians who rarely interact with the significant discipline of childhood studies.’ Modern Believing ’...bring[s] a variety of voices, cultures, ways of worshipping, methodologies, and suggestions to the table of Christian congregational song. [...]The book succeeds in part because each essay gives a taste of a deeper study and includes references for further readings. Those interested in the growing edges of the church and its music will want to dip into this engaging and thoughtful book.
American Organist Review
- Title: Christian Congregational Music: Performance, Identity and Experience
- Authors: Monique Ingalls, Carolyn Landau, Tom Wagner
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Pages: 242
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781315571850, 1315571854
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTNCNGRGTMSC
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:41:26Z