Erin Johnson-Williams is Lecturer in Music Education and Social Justice in the Department of Music at the University of Southampton, UK.Philip Burnett is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music at the University of York, UK.

• 1 Introduction: Constructing Hymns and RaceErin Johnson-Williams and Philip BurnettPart I: Mobility2 Tonic Sol-fa Abroad: Missionaries, Hymn Singing and Indigenous CommunitiesRobin Stevens3 Chinese Hymns and Worship Practices as Global Mobility Huijuan Hua and Shujin Zhang4 The Faith and Politics of Emily Kathleen Hooper (1878–1974): Complicating the Analysis of Christian Worship Music and Western Styles of Music in ChinaEllan A. Lincoln-HydePart II Agency5 And Wash the Æthiop White: Whiteness as Salvation and the Reception History of Wesley’s Conversion HymnDaniel Johnson6 Anglican Ritualism and Xhosa Hymnody: The Training and Contribution of Reverend Daniel MalgasAndrew-John Bethke7 We Become What We Sing: Hymnody as ControlJune Boyce-Tillman8 Co-Writing our Hymn for LiberationLiz GrePart III Coloniality9 Performing Race and Place Through Hymn-Singing: A Brazilian PerspectiveMarcel Silva Steuernagel10 Translations and Retranslations: Cherokee Hymnody and the Literary Endeavors of Elias BoudinotT. Wyatt Reynolds and Abraham Wallace11 Sounding Coloniality and Voicing ResistanceBecca WhitlaPart IV Decoloniality12 Decolonising a Hymn through its Mobility: A Case of Re-Location and Altered Musical AestheticsKgomotso Moshugi13 Hybridizing Heritage: Hymns as Decolonial Practice amongst the Javanese SurinamesesJun Kai Pow14 Challenging the Hymn Canon of ‘Christian Otherness’: The Nigerian Christian Songs Project as Means of Musical DecolonizationMonique M. Ingalls, Ayobami A. Ayanyinka, and Mouma Emmanuella ChesirriForeword: Singing Down the Dividing WallsC. Michael Hawn