| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 172 pages) |
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Religion culture and history series |
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Religion, culture, and history series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series -- Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Experiencing Multiple Traditions -- Sounding and World-Relation -- Music, People, and Interaction -- Introducing Resonance -- What Resonance Can Offer -- 1. Sounding Back and Forth -- Exploring a Word -- Ideal Individual-World Relationships -- Acoustics and Sense -- Aurality, Cognition, and Spirit -- Vibration, Affect, and Atmosphere -- Interrogating Resonance -- Dynamic Ritual Ecologies Across Traditions -- 2. Singing, Resonance, and Ascetic Struggle |
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Turning Away from Music -- Music, Silence, and the Desert -- Resonance and the Body -- The Monk and the Cell -- Contending with Demons -- Psalmody and Resonance -- 3. Resonance, Bach, and Noisy Congregations -- Listening in Low Fidelity -- Bringing Back the Noise -- Bach and Subjectivity -- Social Situations -- Paris and Leipzig -- Churches and Noise -- Theology and Listening -- Modes of Engagement -- 4. Evangelicals, Authenticity, and Sacrament -- Worship Music and Interaction -- Evolving Authenticities -- Strategic Deployment -- Sacramental (Re)Discovery -- Presence and Sound |
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Alternate Narratives -- Complex Categories -- Interrelated Processes -- Contending Different Ideals -- 5. Space, Multiplicity, and De/Reconstructing Resonance -- Two Vignettes -- Theorizing a Movement -- Musical Deconversion -- Multiplicity and Space -- Ambient -- Reconfiguring Resonance -- 6. Prayer Room Live-Streaming and Transnational Resonant Assemblages -- Virtual and IRL Interaction -- Agreement -- Divine Mediation -- Atmosphere -- Assemblages and Affordances -- Changing Patterns of Devotion -- Conclusion: Relational Ecologies and Rhizomatic Flight -- The Nine Questions |
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Models and Taxonomies -- Taking Stock -- Moving Forward -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking explores a diverse range of Christian musical activity through the conceptual lens of resonance, a concept rooted in the physical, vibrational and sonic realm which carries with it an expansive ability to simultaneously describe personal, social and spiritual realities. In this book, Mark Porter proposes that attention to patterns of back-and-forth interaction that exist in and alongside sonic activity can help to understand the dynamics of religious musicking in new ways and, at the same time, can provide a means for bringing diverse traditions into conversation. The book focuses in on different questions arising out of human experience in the moment of worship. What happens if we take the entry point of a human being experiencing certain patterns of (more than) sonic interaction with the world around them as a focus for exploration? What different ecologies of interaction can we trace? What kinds of patterns can we trace through different Christian worshipping environments? And how do these operate across multiple dimensions of experience? Chapters covering ascetic sounding, noisy congregations and internet livestreaming, among others, serve to highlight the diverse ecologies of resonance that surround Christian musicking, suggesting the potential to develop new perspectives on devotional musical activity which focus not primarily on compositions or theological ideals but on changing patterns of interaction across multiple dimensions between individuals, spaces, communities and God"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2020) |
| Subject |
Music in churches.
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Church music -- Social aspects
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Public worship.
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Resonance.
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resonance (acoustics concept)
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Resonance
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Public worship
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Music in churches
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020017404 |
| ISBN |
9780197534113 |
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0197534112 |
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9780197534120 |
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0197534120 |
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