Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide 9781138307650, 9781315142432
What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? T
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English Pages [293] Year 2018
Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction: music as local and global positioning: how congregational music-making produces the local in Christian communities worldwide
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
2 Indigenizing Navajo Hymns: explaining the fame of Elizabeth and Virginia
3 Give us a piece of that Old Time Religion: why mainline Protestants are (re)claiming an evangelical musical heritage
Part II Congregational music and the politics of indigeneity
4 Song as gift and capital: intercultural processes of indigenisation and spiritual transvaluation in Yolngu Christian music
5 Performing glocal liturgies: the Second Vatican Council and musical inculturation in East Africa
6 Inculturation, institutions, and the creation of a localized congregational repertoire in Indonesia
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
8 Secular-sacred interface: Lisu farmer chorus and the cultural politics of representation of minority culture in Yunnan’s Northwestern Nujiang Prefecture
9 Interreligious music networks: capitalizing on Balinese gamelan
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
11 Mediating racial and spiritual difference in Harlem: Cocolo Japanese Gospel Choir and Convent Avenue Baptist Church
12 Sonic citizenship: rights and rites of belonging in Ireland
Afterword: on the anthropology of Christianity, the complexity of the local, and the study of Christian congregational music in global perspective
Index
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