Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide

Introduction: Music as local and global positioning: how congregational music-making produces the local in Christian communities worldwide, Monique M. Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg and Zoe C. Sherinian; PART I: Engaging musical pasts: continuity and change in congregational song practices; 1 The saints who sing and dance: enchanting subjunctive visions in Southeast Brazil, Suzel Ana Reily; 2 Indigenizing Navajo hymns: explaining the fame of Elizabeth and Virginia, Kimberly Jenkins Marshall; 3 Give us a piece of that Old Time Religion: why mainline Protestants are (re)claiming an evangelical musical heritage, Deborah Justice; PART II: Congregational music and the politics of indigeneity; 4 Song as gift and capital: intercultural processes of indigenization and spiritual transvaluation in Yolngu Christian music, Fiona Magowan; 5 Performing glocal liturgies: the Second Vatican Council and musical inculturation in East Africa,Nicholas Ssempijja; 6 Inculturation, institutions, and the creation of a localized congregational repertoire in Indonesia, Marzanna Poplawska; PART III: Rifts, reconciliation, and coexistence: congregational music-making in the diverse locale; 7 Sounds of localisation in South African Anglican church music: some examples of transformation at the College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown, Andrew-John Bethke; 8 Secular-sacred interface: The Lisu farmer chorus and the cultural politics of representation of minority culture in Yunnan's Northwestern Nujiang Prefecture, Diao Ying; 9 Interreligious music networks: capitalizing on Balinese gamelan, Dustin D. Wiebe; PART IV: Christian musical cosmopolitanisms:producing the local across racial and national lines; 10 Congregational song and musical 'accommodation' in a South African Lutheran parish, Laryssa Whittaker; 11 Mediating racial and spiritual difference in Harlem: Cocolo Japanese Gospel Choir and Convent Avenue Baptist Church, Marti Newland; 12 Sonic citizenship: rites and rights of belonging in Ireland, Helen Phelan; Afterword: On the anthropology of Christianity, the complexity of the local, and the study of Christian Congregational Music in global perspective, Joel Robbins