The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

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.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Chapter 1-Introduction, by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily ; -- ; 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 ; -- ; 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 Therese Smith ; Chapter 13-Songs of Oru Olai and the Praxis of Alternative Dalit Christian Modernities in India, by Zoe Sherinian ; -- ; 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 ; -- ; 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 ; -- ; 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 ; -- ; 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 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.