Christian Congregational Music:
Local and Global Perspectives Conference
Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom
1 - 3 August 2013
The booking site for the conference has now officially closed. However if you are still interested in coming, please contact the conference organising committee by emailing music.conference@rcc.ac.uk : it may be that a small number of spaces become available through cancellations
Conference Information
Programme
Please click here to download the draft Conference Programme.
Location
All conference sessions will be held at Ripon College Cuddesdon, a theological college affiliated with the University of Oxford. The College is located seven miles south-east of the Oxford city centre and is accessible by car or bus.
Conference schedule
The schedule for the three-day conference maintains a unique balance of presentations from featured speakers, traditional conference panel presentations, roundtable discussions, and film documentary screenings.
Featured Speakers
The Revd Canon Professor Martyn Percy
Professor of Theological Education, King’s College London
Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK
Dr Zoe Sherinian
Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Dr Suzel Reily
Reader in Ethnomusicology, School of Creative Arts
Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Dr Marie Jorritsma
Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Dr Amos Yong
J Rodman Williams Professor of Theology
Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, USA
Dr Gerardo Marti
L Richardson King Associate Professor of Sociology
Davidson College, Davidson, USA
Dr Roberta King
Associate Professor of Communication and Ethnomusicology
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA
Dr Clive Marsh
Director of Learning and Teaching
Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Leicester, UK
Dr Byron Dueck
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Open University, UK
Dr Charles E Farhadian
Associate Professor of World Religions and Christian Mission
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California
Conference Organisers and Conveners
The Rev Canon Professor Martyn Percy, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford
Dr Monique Ingalls, University of Cambridge
Tom Wagner, Royal Holloway, University of London
Mark Porter, City University, London
For all programme-related queries, please contact: music.conference@ripon-cuddesdon.ac.uk
2013 Conference Themes
Congregational music-making has long been a vital and vibrant practice within Christian communities worldwide. Congregational music reflects, informs, and articulates local convictions and concerns as well as global flows of ideas and products. Congregational song can unify communities of faith across geographical and cultural boundaries, while simultaneously serving as a contested practice used to inscribe, challenge, and negotiate identities. Many twenty-first century congregational song repertories are transnational genres that cross boundaries of region, nation, and denomination. The various meanings, uses, and influence of these congregational song repertoires cannot be understood without an exploration of these musics’ local roots and global routes.
This conference seeks to explore the multifaceted interaction between local and global dimensions of Christian congregational music by drawing from perspectives across academic disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, music studies, and theology. In particular, the conference features papers addressing or engaging with one or more of the following six themes:
The Politics of Congregational Singing
Popular Music in/as Christian Worship
From Mission Hymns to Indigenous Hymnodies
. Congregational Music in the University Classroom
Towards a More Musical Theology
A Futurology of Congregational Music
PRIOR CONFERENCE
Congregational Music Conference, 1-3 September 2011
Conference programme and abstracts
Conference Report (for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology)
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