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Music Making Congregations explores how contemporary worship music has brought new modes of congregating into being within evangelical Christianity. Through ethnographies of concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations, this book shows how music shapes evangelical community relative to other groups in North America and beyond.
About the author
Monique M. Ingalls is Assistant Professor of Music at Baylor University. Her work on music in Christian communities has been published in the fields of ethnomusicology, media studies, hymnology, and religious studies. She is Series Editor for Routledge's Congregational Music Studies book series and is co-founder and program chair of the biennial international conference "Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives."
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Music Making Congregations explores how contemporary worship music has brought new modes of congregating into being within evangelical Christianity. Through ethnographies of concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations, this book shows how music shapes evangelical community relative to other groups in North America and beyond.
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Ingalls' descriptions of evangelical visual piety with regard to images in worship is fascinating, especially her interviews with the creators of amateur worship videos who explain their motivations and aesthetic values...Ingalls' contribution in this book is a substantive theoretical examination of how congregations, aided by CWM, arise in increasingly diverse spaces.
