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Overview"Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or ""modes of congregating"". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations--Singing the Congregation reinvigorates the analytic categories of ""congregation"" and ""congregational music."" Drawing from theoretical models in ethnomusicology and congregational studies, Singing the Congregation reconceives the congregation as a fluid, contingent social constellation that is actively performed into being through communal practice--in this case, the musically-structured participatory activity known as ""worship."" ""Congregational music-making"" is thereby recast as a practice capable of weaving together a religious community both inside and outside local institutional churches. Congregational music-making is not only a means of expressing local concerns and constituting the local religious community; it is also a powerful way to identify with far-flung individuals, institutions, and networks that comprise this global religious community. The interactions among the congregations reveal widespread conflicts over religious authority, carrying far-ranging implications for how evangelicals position themselves relative to other groups in North America and beyond." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Monique M. Ingalls (Assistant Professor of Church Music, Assistant Professor of Church Music, Baylor University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.596kg ISBN: 9780190499631ISBN 10: 019049963 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 08 November 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Credits Introduction Contemporary Worship Music and Modes of Congregating within North American Evangelical Christianity Chapter 1 Making Jesus Famous: The Quest for an Authentic Worship Experience in the Concert Congregation Chapter 2 Singing Heaven Down to Earth: The Conference Congregation as Pilgrim Gathering and Eschatological Community Chapter 3 Finding the Church's Voice: Contemporary Worship as Musical Positioning in a Nashville Church Congregation Chapter 4 Bringing Worship to the Streets: The Praise March as Public Congregation Chapter 5 Worship on Screen: Building Networked Congregations Online and Offline through Audiovisual Worship Media Conclusion Worship Music on the Global Stage: The Mainstream Model and Its Alternatives BibliographyReviewsSinging the Congregation is the much-anticipated monograph from one of the leading voices in the study of congregational music. Reading Ingalls' book, one understands that congregating, wherever and however it happens, is fundamentally musical and, critically, that music studies has much to say about twenty-first-century evangelical Christianity. -- Jeffers Engelhardt, Associate Professor of Music, Amherst College In this finely-wrought ethnomusicology of Christianity, Monique M. Ingalls sensitively captures the voices, intimate and global, that today fill the sacred soundscape of evangelicalism. -- Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, The University of Chicago In highlighting the role contemporary worship music plays in congregations, she delivers a timely challenge to North American evangelicalism to reflect on its own culture and to assess its effectiveness not solely on the basis of relevance or reach potential, but on how the methods used influence the messageDLa challenge that can extend beyond music to many other aspects of the church. -- Niklaas W. Schalm, Didaskalia This monograph is a highly dense and material-rich examination of what the author defines as 'contemporary worship music', partly following emic language, partly prudently discussing alternative wordings for this vast and transforming field of evangelical Christian music during and beyond religious services. -- Matthew C. Bagger, Northport, Alabama, Religion [T]his sensitive, thorough study offers a much-needed extension of the discourses on congregational Christianity and opens up many opportunities for further discussions of contemporary evangelical congregations. -- Maria S. Guarino, University of Virginia, Reading Religion Ingalls' descriptions of evangelical visual piety with regard to images in worship is fascinating, especially her interviews with the creators of amateur worship videos who explain their motivations and aesthetic values...Ingalls' contribution in this book is a substantive theoretical examination of how congregations, aided by CWM, arise in increasingly diverse spaces. -- John MacInnis, Dordt University, In All Things Singing the Congregation is the much-anticipated monograph from one of the leading voices in the study of congregational music. Ingalls gives us a theoretically rich, comprehensive ethnography of the sites and practices of evangelical worship. Her book leads us through the assemblage of theologies, media, industries, and collective musical experiences of worship that shape evangelical religious and social identities. Reading Ingalls' book, one understands that congregating, wherever and however it happens, is fundamentally musical and, critically, that music studies has much to say about twenty-first-century evangelical Christianity. -- Jeffers Engelhardt, Associate Professor of Music, Amherst College In the growing field of Contemporary Praise & Worship studies, Monique Ingalls is a trailblazer. Singing the Congregation only makes more firm her scholarly leadership in the field. Read it for either a general introduction to the phenomenon or a detailed path into several of its most illustrative manifestations. -- Lester Ruth, Research Professor of Christian Worship, Duke Divinity School Singing the Congregation is a profoundly theological book. Those working in congregational studies will see 'congregations' as political and digital performances; liturgists will grapple with how liturgical worship can unfold in the public square; ecclesiologists here glimpse into the evolving nature of the 21st-century church; missiologists will debate issues about contextualization and acculturation in light of the commodification of the Christian music and worship industry; and theologians will have opportunity to revisit familiar dogmatic loci - e.g., theological anthropology, soteriology, and even pneumatology - through the lenses of ethnomusicology. All theologically oriented readers, meanwhile, will be given a range of scholarly and analytical perspectives on what many may experience on Sunday mornings, certainly also at their workstations or on their iPods. -- Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Seminary In this finely-wrought ethnomusicology of Christianity, Monique M. Ingalls sensitively captures the voices, intimate and global, that today fill the sacred soundscape of evangelicalism. -- Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, The University of Chicago In her ground-breaking exploration of music in evangelical worship, Ingalls expands our understanding of contemporary Christian religious expression - a vivid and richly detailed examination of music, community and spiritual experience in the twenty-first century. -- Jeffrey A. Summit, Research Professor, Tufts University and author of Singing Godas Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism (OUP) Author Information"Monique M. Ingalls is Assistant Professor of Music at Baylor University. Her work on music in Christian communities has been published in the fields of ethnomusicology, media studies, hymnology, and religious studies. She is Series Editor for Routledge's Congregational Music Studies book series and is co-founder and program chair of the biennial international conference ""Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives.""" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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