The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily and Jonathan M. Dueck

Oxford Handbooks

Brings together leading ethnomusicological scholars in a fast-emerging field
Is unique in geographical, methodological, and interdisciplinary breadth
Contributes an ethnomusicological perspective to broader scholarship on world Christianities

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily and Jonathan M. Dueck

Description

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions.

The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. It also tries to take account of the religious self-understandings of these groups, presenting Christian musical practice and exchange as encompassing and negotiating deeply felt and deeply rooted moral and cultural values. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily and Jonathan M. Dueck

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1—Introduction, by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily
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PART 1: MISSION MUSIC AND LOCAL RESPONSES
Chapter 2—Music, Convert, and Subject in the North Sumatran Mission Field, by Julia Byl
Chapter 3—Transnational Continuity and Creativity in Yolngu Musical and Spiritual Experience, by Fiona Magowan
Chapter 4—Coexistence of Causal and Cultural Expressions of Musical Values among the Sabaot of Kenya, by Julie Taylor
Chapter 5—Indigenous Innovations on Music and Christianity at Ratana Pa, by Harold Anderson
Chapter 6—Music as Shared Space in Mennonite Development Work in Chad, by Jonathan Dueck
Chapter 7—Are Western Christian Bhajans "Reverse" Mission Music?, by Chris Hale
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PART 2: UTOPIAS AND ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES
Chapter 8—Drums as a Black way of Experiencing Catholicism in Brazil, by Glaura Lucas
Chapter 9—Chant as the articulation of Christian Aramean spirithood, by Tala Jarjour
Chapter 10—The Politics of Pronunciation among German-Speaking Mennonites in Northern Mexico, by Judith Klassen
Chapter 11—Hidden Histories of Religious Music in a South African Coloured Community, by Marie Jorritsma
Chapter 12—Music and Religiosity among African American Fundamentalist Christians, by Thérèse Smith
Chapter 13—Songs of Oru Olai and the Praxis of Alternative Dalit Christian Modernities in India, by Zoe Sherinian
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PART 3: STRUGGLES OVER MUSICAL SPACE / COMPETING CHRISTIANITIES
Chapter 14—The Confraternities and their Music in Corsica, by Caroline Bithell
Chapter 15—Local Music Making and the Liturgical Renovation in Minas Gerais, by Suzel Ana Reily
Chapter 16—The Survival Story of Syriac Chants among the St. Thomas Christians in South India, by Joseph J. Palackal
Chapter 17—Exploring "Authenticity, " Sacred Music, and Diaspora Through the Russian Orthodox Community in New York, by Natalie K. Zelensky
Chapter 18—Parading Protestantisms and the Flute Bands of Post-conflict Northern Ireland, by Jacqueline Witherow
Chapter 19—Everyday Musical Ethnicity and Roma (Gypsies) in Hungarian Pentecostalism, by Barbara Rose Lange
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PART 4: FLOWS, MEDIA, MARKETS AND CHRISTIAN MUSICS
Chapter 20—Transnational Connections, Musical Meaning, and the 1990s "British Invasion " of North American Evangelical Worship Music, by Monique Ingalls
Chapter 21—Negotiations of Faith and Space in Memphis Music, by Jennifer Ryan
Chapter 22—Tropes of Continuity and Disjuncture in the Globalization of Gospel Music, by Mellonee Burnim
Chapter 23—Mainline Protestantism and Contemporary versus Traditional Worship Music, by Deborah Justice
Chapter 24—Negotiating the Tensions of the U.S. Worship Music in the Marketplace, by Anna E. Nekola
Chapter 25—Contingency and the Symbolic experience of Christian Extreme Metal, by Matthew Peter Unger
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PART 5: COSMOPOLITAN IDENTITIES AND EVERYDAY LIVES
Chapter 26—Palestinian Christmas Songs for Peace and Justice in Sacred Place and Politicized Space, by Jennifer Sinnamon
Chapter 27—The Diffusion of Gregorian Chant in Southern Italy and the Masses for St Michael, by Luisa Nardini
Chapter 28—Performing Pannkotis Identity in Haiti, by Melvin L. Butler
Chapter 29—Christianity and Korean Traditional Music, by Keith Howard
Chapter 30—Congregational Singing, Orthodox Christianity, and the Making of Ecumenicity, by Jeffers Engelhardt
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Chapter 31, Sound, Soteriology, Return, and Revival in the Global History of Christian Musics (Afterword), by Philip V. Bohlman

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily and Jonathan M. Dueck

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Author Information

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily, Titular Professor, Instituto de Artes, Universidade Federal de Campinas, and Jonathan M. Dueck, Assistant Professor of Writing, George Washington University

Suzel Ana Reily is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade Federal de Campinas. She is the author of Voices of the Magi (Chicago, 2002). She has also edited The Music Human: Rethinking John Blacking's Ethnomusicology in the 21st Century (Ashgate, 2006) and Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies and Local Music Making (with K Brucher, Ashgate, 2013).

Jonathan Dueck is Assistant Professor of Writing and Deputy Director of Writing in the Disciplines at The George Washington University. He has published in Ethnomusicology, the Journal of American Folklore, and Popular Music and Society, among other venues.

Contributors:

Harold Anderson, Bowie State University
Julia Byl, King's College, London
Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago
Caroline Bithell, University of Manchester
Mellonee Burnim, Indiana University
Melvin L. Butler, University of Chicago
Jonathan Dueck, The George Washington University
Jeffers Engelhardt, Amherst College
Christopher Dicran Hale
Keith Howard, University of Sydney
Monique Ingalls, University of Cambridge
Tala Jarjour, University of Notre Dame
Marie Jorritsma, University of Witwatersrand
Deborah Justice, Syracuse University
Judith Klassen, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Barbara Rose Lange, Moores School of Music
Glaura Lucas, Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais
Fiona Magowan, Queen's University, Belfast
Luisa Nardini, University of Texas
Anna Nekola, Denison University
Joseph Palackal, Christian Musicological Society of India
Suzel Ana Reily, Instituto de Artes, Universidade Federal de Campinas
Jennifer Ryan, Indiana State University
Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma
Jennifer Sinnamon, National Conservatoire of Music and Drama
Thérèse Smith, University College
Julie Taylor, Wycliffe
Matthew Unger, University of Alberta
Jacqueline Witherow, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Natalie Zelensky, Colby College

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily and Jonathan M. Dueck

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Reviews and Awards

Honorable Mention of the 2018 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology

"The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities demonstrates that ethnomusicology is a field that religious studies scholars cannot afford to ignore. Largely, but not exclusively, situated within that discipline, it effectively places the study of Christianities in a global context that allows for new critical narratives and theories about the nature and history of Christianity." - Reading Religion