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Christian congregational music : performance, identity and experience / edited by Monique Ingalls, University of Cambridge, UK, Carolyn Landau, King's College London, UK and Thomas Wagner, Royal Holloway University of London, UK .

Contributor(s): Ingalls, Monique Marie | Landau, Carolyn, 1978- | Wagner, Thomas, 1980-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: England : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409466024 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1409466027 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Music in churches | Church musicDDC classification: 264/.2 LOC classification: ML3001 | .C512 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Performing theology, forming identity, and shaping experience : Christian congregational music in Europe and North America / Monique M. Ingalls, Carolyn Landau and Thomas Wagner -- Performing theology -- On one accord : resounding the past in the present at one African American church / Will Boone -- "Praise is what we do" : the rise of praise and worship music in the Black Church in the U.S. / Deborah Smith Pollard -- Tune your music to your heart : reflections for church music leaders / June Boyce-Tillman -- Jazz and Anglican spirituality? : some notes on connections / Martyn Percy -- Interplay of identities -- Making borrowed songs : Mennonite hymns, appropriation and media / Jonathan Dueck -- New music for new times? : debates over Catholic congregational music in Hungary / Kinga Povedák -- "I'll take you there" : the promise of transformation in the marketing of worship media in U.S. Christian music magazines / Anna Nekola -- (Hillsong) united through music : praise and worship music and the evangelical "imagined community" / Gesa Hartje-Döll -- Experience and embodiment -- The sensual theology of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church / Sarah Eyerly -- Worship, transcendence and danger : reflections on Seigfried Kracauer's "The hotel lobby" / Martin D. Stringer -- "Really worshipping", not "just singing" / Gordon Adnams -- Moving between musical worlds : worship music, significance and ethics in the lives of contemporary worshippers / Mark Porter -- Theology and music in conversation / Martyn Percy.

"This book is based on some of the papers and keynote presentations that were given at the first meeting of the Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives conference, held in the autumn of 2011 at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford."--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude: Performing theology, forming identity, and shaping experience : Christian congregational music in Europe and North America / Monique M. Ingalls, Carolyn Landau and Thomas Wagner -- Part I: Performing theology -- On one accord : resounding the past in the present at one African American church / Will Boone -- "Praise is what we do" : the rise of praise and worship music in the Black Church in the U.S. / Deborah Smith Pollard -- Tune your music to your heart : reflections for church music leaders / June Boyce-Tillman -- Jazz and Anglican spirituality? : some notes on connections / Martyn Percy -- Part II: Interplay of identities -- Making borrowed songs : Mennonite hymns, appropriation and media / Jonathan Dueck -- New music for new times? : debates over Catholic congregational music in Hungary / Kinga Povedák -- "I'll take you there" : the promise of transformation in the marketing of worship media in U.S. Christian music magazines / Anna Nekola -- (Hillsong) united through music : praise and worship music and the evangelical "imagined community" / Gesa Hartje-Döll -- Part III: Experience and embodiment -- The sensual theology of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church / Sarah Eyerly -- Worship, transcendence and danger : reflections on Seigfried Kracauer's "The hotel lobby" / Martin D. Stringer -- "Really worshipping", not "just singing" / Gordon Adnams -- Moving between musical worlds : worship music, significance and ethics in the lives of contemporary worshippers / Mark Porter -- Afterword: Theology and music in conversation / Martyn Percy.

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