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Zusatztext 'Inter-disciplinary research projects are difficult to undertake. I want to congratulate the authors in this book for taking up this significant effort of investigating the music making efforts of local Christian communities drawing on methodological parameters both in and beyond their ethnomusicological arena. The resulting effort of crossing boundaries to undertake this work is most admirable and noteworthy.'Lim Swee Hong! Deer Park Associate Professor of Sacred Music! Emmanuel College! University of Toronto! Canada Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Coun...
