Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Prelude Performing Theology, Forming Identity and Shaping Experience: Christian Congregational Music in Europe and North America, Monique Ingalls, Carolyn Landau, Tom Wagner; Part I Performing Theology; Chapter 1a On One Accord: Resounding the Past in the Present at One African American Church, Will Boone; Chapter 2 'Praise Is What We Do': The Rise of Praise and Worship Music in the Black Church in the US, Deborah Smith Pollard; Chapter 3 Tune Your Music to Your Heart: Reflections for Church Music Leaders, June Boyce-Tillman; Chapter 4 Jazz and Anglican Spirituality? Some Notes on Connections, Martyn Percy; Part II Interplay of Identities; Chapter 5 Making Borrowed Songs: Mennonite Hymns, Appropriation and Media, Jonathan Dueck; Chapter 6 New Music for New Times?: Debates over Catholic Congregational Music in Hungary, Kinga Povedák; Chapter 7 'I'll Take you There': The Promise of Transformation in the Marketing of Worship Media in US Christian Music Magazines, Anna Nekola; Chapter 8 (Hillsong) United Through Music: Praise and Worship Music and the Evangelical 'Imagined Community', Gesa Hartje-Döll; Part III Experience and Embodiment; Chapter 9 The Sensual Theology of the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church, Sarah Eyerly; Chapter 10 Worship, Transcendence and Danger: Reflections on Seigfried Kracauer's 'The Hotel Lobby', Martin D. Stringer; Chapter 11 'Really Worshipping', not 'Just Singing', Gordon Adnams; Chapter 12 Moving Between Musical Worlds: Worship Music, Significance and Ethics in the Lives of Contemporary Worshippers, Mark Porter; Chapter 14 Afterword Theology and Music in Conversation, Martyn Percy;
