Overview

Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays explore the ethical and doctrinal implications of music-making. The reflections are grouped according to the traditional threefold ministry of Christ: prophet, priest, and shepherd: the prophetic role of music, as a means of articulating protest against injustice, offering consolation, and embodying a harmonious order; the pastoral role of music: creating and sustaining community, building peace, fostering harmony with the whole of creation; and the priestly role of music: in service of reconciliation and restoration, for individuals and communities, offering prayers of praise and intercession to God. Using music in priestly, prophetic, and pastoral ways, Christians pray for and rehearse the coming of God’s kingdom—whether in formal worship, social protest, concert performance, interfaith sharing, or peacebuilding. Whereas temperance was of prime importance in relation to the ethics of music from antiquity to the early modern period, justice has become central to contemporary debates. This book seeks to contribute to those debates by means of Christian theological reflection on a wide range of musics: including monastic chant, death metal, protest songs, psalms and worship music, punk rock, musical drama, interfaith choral singing, Sting, and Daft Punk.

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Author:   Michael O'Connor ,  Hyun-Ah Kim ,  Christina Labriola ,  Awet Iassu Andemicael
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9781498538688

ISBN 10:   1498538681
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: A Prophetic Role for Music: Protest and Liberation Chapter One: Turning Hymns into Protest: Zilphia Horton and the Role of Musical Memory in Labor in the New Deal Era Chapter Two: Punk Rock and/as Liberation Theology Chapter Three: Mercy, Music, and the Prophetic Voice of Theology: Jon Sobrino’s Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus Chapter Four: A Prophetic Role for Music: A Response and Synthesis Part Two: A Pastoral Role for Music: Creating Community Chapter Five: Sacred Love: The (Eco)Theology of Sting Chapter Six: Music, Religion, and Peacebuilding: The Pontanima Choir of Sarajevo Chapter Seven: Breaking Stereotypes and Building Bridges: Nihilism, Lament, And Theodicy Within The Extreme Metal Music Culture Chapter Eight: A Pastoral Role For Music: Sacramental and Salvific Powers Part Three: A Priestly Role for Music: Reconciliation and Restoration Chapter Nine: Random Access Liturgies: Daft Punk as Robotic Priests Restoring Humanity Chapter Ten: Recalling the Original Harmony of Paradise: The Nexus of Music, Ethics, and Spirituality in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum Chapter Eleven: The Nightingale of Christ’s Redemption Song: Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Musical Apostolate Chapter Twelve: Music as Theology: Singing Prophetic Truth, Sounding the Reign of God Chapter Thirteen: A Priestly Role for Music: Concluding Reflection

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This is a deeply moving and strikingly original collection of essays, offering eloquent testimony to the transformative power of music as an agent of Christian ministry. The editors' approach to organizing their far-ranging materials according to the three Old Testament ministerial roles of prophet, shepherd, and priest as embodied in Christ is brilliant, creating a cohesive and compelling demonstration of the profound interlace between music, theology, and justice across an astonishingly wide span of space, time, and musical style. From medieval Germany to modern Bosnia, from plainsong to punk rock, the thirteen contributors chart music's potent ethical capacity to enact, express, and empower positive spiritual and social change. -- M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College What can music tell us about the nature of Christian justice? Music, Theology, and Justice teaches us in a probing set of compellingly argued essays spanning the middle ages to the present, from Hildegard to Daft Punk and Mechthild of Hackeborn to Sting...a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of music theology and an incisive exploration of inter-related concepts, histories and disciplines. -- Bennett Zon, Durham University This is a much-needed volume. As the theology and music conversation develops, it is all too easy to forget the embeddedness of music in webs of social interaction, including the struggle for justice. An imaginative, sophisticated and highly readable collection. -- Jeremy Begbie, Duke University

This is a much-needed volume. As the theology and music conversation develops, it is all too easy to forget the embeddedness of music in webs of social interaction, including the struggle for justice. An imaginative, sophisticated and highly readable collection.--Jeremy Begbie, Duke University What can music tell us about the nature of Christian justice? Music, Theology, and Justice teaches us in a probing set of compellingly argued essays spanning the middle ages to the present, from Hildegard to Daft Punk and Mechthild of Hackeborn to Sting...a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of music theology and an incisive exploration of inter-related concepts, histories and disciplines.--Bennett Zon, Durham University This is a deeply moving and strikingly original collection of essays, offering eloquent testimony to the transformative power of music as an agent of Christian ministry. The editors' approach to organizing their far-ranging materials according to the three Old Testament ministerial roles of prophet, shepherd, and priest as embodied in Christ is brilliant, creating a cohesive and compelling demonstration of the profound interlace between music, theology, and justice across an astonishingly wide span of space, time, and musical style. From medieval Germany to modern Bosnia, from plainsong to punk rock, the thirteen contributors chart music's potent ethical capacity to enact, express, and empower positive spiritual and social change.--M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College

This is a much-needed volume. As the theology and music conversation develops, it is all too easy to forget the embeddedness of music in webs of social interaction, including the struggle for justice. An imaginative, sophisticated and highly readable collection. -- Jeremy Begbie, Duke University What can music tell us about the nature of Christian justice? Music, Theology, and Justice teaches us in a probing set of compellingly argued essays spanning the middle ages to the present, from Hildegard to Daft Punk and Mechthild of Hackeborn to Sting...a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of music theology and an incisive exploration of inter-related concepts, histories and disciplines. -- Bennett Zon, Durham University This is a deeply moving and strikingly original collection of essays, offering eloquent testimony to the transformative power of music as an agent of Christian ministry. The editors' approach to organizing their far-ranging materials according to the three Old Testament ministerial roles of prophet, shepherd, and priest as embodied in Christ is brilliant, creating a cohesive and compelling demonstration of the profound interlace between music, theology, and justice across an astonishingly wide span of space, time, and musical style. From medieval Germany to modern Bosnia, from plainsong to punk rock, the thirteen contributors chart music's potent ethical capacity to enact, express, and empower positive spiritual and social change. -- M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College

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Michael O’Connor is associate professor at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Hyun-Ah Kim is fellow of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in the University of Toronto, and Hardenberg fellow at Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek. Christina Labriola is doctoral candidate at Regis College, Toronto School of Theology.

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