Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ingalls, Monique M.; Sherinian, Zoe C.; Reigersberg, Muriel Swijghuisen

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways that congregational music-making is integral to how communities around the world understand what it means to be 'local' and 'Christian'. It contends that examining musical processes of localization can lead scholars to new understandings of the meaning and power of Christian belief and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351391696
• Artikelnr.: 53347460

Autorenporträt

Monique M. Ingalls is Assistant Professor of Music at Baylor University. Her research explores the effects of recent social, cultural, and technological change on evangelical and charismatic Christian congregational music-making in North America and beyond. She has co-editor several books on Christian congregational music topics and is co-founder and Series Editor of Routledge's Congregational Music Studies Series. Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg is a research development manager (strategy) and visiting fellow at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia. She holds a doctorate in applied ethnomusicology. Her research has focussed on Australian Aboriginal Lutheran choral singing, applied research, the anthropology of Christianity, ethics and the relationship between music, health and well-being. She has published several book chapters and articles in her field focussing on Australian Aboriginal choral singing and constructs of identity through performance. Zoe C. Sherinian is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of the book Tamil Folk Music As Dalit Liberation Theology (Indiana University Press, 2014) and producer of the documentary film This Is A Music: Reclaiming An Untouchable Drum, which won the University of Oklahoma's Outstanding Research Impact Award. Her journal publications include articles in Ethnomusicology, Worlds of Music, Women and Music, and Religion Compass. She has received numerous grants to make her next documentary film on women parai drummers and their syncretic ritual practices at the Sakthi Folk Cultural Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Music as local and global positioning: how congregational
music-making produces the local in Christian communities worldwide,
Monique M. Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg and Zoe C. Sherinian;
PART I: Engaging musical pasts: continuity and change in congregational
song practices; 1 The saints who sing and dance: enchanting subjunctive
visions in Southeast Brazil, Suzel Ana Reily; 2 Indigenizing Navajo hymns:
explaining the fame of Elizabeth and Virginia, Kimberly Jenkins Marshall;
3 Give us a piece of that Old Time Religion: why mainline Protestants are
(re)claiming an evangelical musical heritage, Deborah Justice; PART II:
Congregational music and the politics of indigeneity; 4 Song as gift and
capital: intercultural processes of indigenization and spiritual
transvaluation in Yolngu Christian music, Fiona Magowan; 5 Performing
glocal liturgies: the Second Vatican Council and musical inculturation in
East Africa,Nicholas Ssempijja; 6 Inculturation, institutions, and the
creation of a localized congregational repertoire in Indonesia, Marzanna
Poplawska; PART III: Rifts, reconciliation, and coexistence: congregational
music-making in the diverse locale; 7 Sounds of localisation in South
African Anglican church music: some examples of transformation at the
College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown, Andrew-John Bethke; 8
Secular-sacred interface: The Lisu farmer chorus and the cultural politics
of representation of minority culture in Yunnan's Northwestern Nujiang
Prefecture, Diao Ying; 9 Interreligious music networks: capitalizing on
Balinese gamelan, Dustin D. Wiebe; PART IV: Christian musical
cosmopolitanisms:producing the local across racial and national lines; 10
Congregational song and musical 'accommodation' in a South African Lutheran
parish, Laryssa Whittaker; 11 Mediating racial and spiritual difference in
Harlem: Cocolo Japanese Gospel Choir and Convent Avenue Baptist Church,
Marti Newland; 12 Sonic citizenship: rites and rights of belonging in
Ireland, Helen Phelan; Afterword: On the anthropology of Christianity, the
complexity of the local, and the study of Christian Congregational Music in
global perspective, Joel Robbins