Nekola Anna E. - Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age

CONGREGATIONAL MUSIC-MAKING AND COMMUNITY IN A MEDIATED AGE

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs.

Bringing together a range of voices, promoting dialogue across a range of disciplines, each author approaches the topic of congregational music from his or her own perspective, facilitating cross-disciplinary connections while also showcasing a diversity of outlooks on the roles that music and media play in Christian experience. The authors break important new ground in understanding the ways that music, media and religious belief and praxis become lived theology in our media age, revealing the rich and diverse ways that people are living, experiencing and negotiating faith and community through music.

ASHGATE CONGREGATIONAL MUSIC STUDIES SERIES

Series Editors

Monique M. Ingalls, Baylor University, USA

Martyn Percy, University of Oxford, UK

Zoe C. Sherinian, University of Oklahoma, USA

Congregational music-making is a vital and vibrant practice within Christian communities worldwide. Music can both unite and divide: at times, it brings together individuals and communities across geographical and cultural boundaries while, at others, it divides communities by embodying conflicting meanings and symbolizing oppositional identities. Many factors influence congregational music in its contemporary global context, posing theoretical and methodological challenges for the academic study of congregational music-making. Increasingly, coming to a robust understanding of congregational musics meaning, influence and significance requires a mixture of complementary approaches. Including perspectives from musicology, religious and theological studies, anthropology and sociology of religion, media studies, political economy, and popular music studies, this series presents a cluster of landmark titles exploring music-making within contemporary Christianity which will further Congregational Music Studies as an important new academic field of study.

Other titles in this series

Christian Congregational Music

Performance, Identity and Experience

Edited by Monique Ingalls, Carolyn Landau and Tom Wagner

Edited by

ANNA NEKOLA

Denison University, USA

TOM WAGNER

University of Edinburgh, UK

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Congregational music-making and community in a mediated age / edited by Anna Nekola and Tom Wagner.

pages cm. (Congregational music studies series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-5919-0 (hardcover) 1. Church music. 2. Christianity and culture. 3. Mass mediaReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Nekola, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1974- editor. II. Wagner, Thomas, 1980- editor.

ML3001.C69 2015

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2015016392

ISBN: 9781472459190 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781315573434 (ebk)

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Anna E. Nekola

Tom Wagner

Florian Carl

Tanya Riches

Ruth King Goddard

Andrew Mall

Ellen Lueck

Daniel Thornton and Mark Evans

Kinga Povedk

Allan F. Moore

Joshua Kalin Busman

Clive Marsh

Marcus Moberg

Monique M. Ingalls

Joshua Kalin Busman received the PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a BM in music composition from Middle Tennessee State University as well as an MA in musicology from UNC-CH. His dissertation research deals with music in contemporary American evangelicalism using phenomenology, ethnography and popular music studies. In addition to working on his dissertation, Joshua also works as a tutor at the UNC Writing Center, directs Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, a central Javanese ensemble based at UNC-CH, and serves as Arts Coordinator for Emmaus Way Church in Durham.

Florian Carl is a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Head of the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds an MA in Musicology, Social Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Cologne and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany. He is author of Berlin/Accra: Music, Travel, and the Production of Space (LIT 2009) and his articles appear in the Yearbook for Traditional Music, The Globalization of Musics in Transit (Routledge 2014) and Ghana Studies.

Mark Evans is a Professor and Head of the School of Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is Series Editor for Genre, Music and Sound (Equinox Publishing) and is currently editor for The International Encyclopedia of Film Music and Sound. He co-edits the international journal, Perfect Beat, and holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to design an artistic and environmental map of the Shoalhaven basin in New South Wales. His upcoming books include Sounding Funny: Comedy, Cinema and Music (with Phillip Hayward) and Moves, Movies and Music: The Sound of Dance Films (with Mary Fogarty).

Ruth King Goddard is a DWS candidate at Robert E. Webber Institute of Worship Studies, Jacksonville, Florida. She has an MA in Theological Studies from Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been leading worship ministries in churches for more than thirty years. She is also a music development specialist who has been teaching both singers and non-singers for over forty years. Her book, Singing for Non-Singers: You Can!, is a resource for non-singers and teachers. In addition, she has advanced certification in Early Childhood Gordon Music Learning Theory. She owns the Joy of Music Co. in Everett, Washington.