Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 12
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 11, “Congregational Singing and Practices of Gender in Christian Worship: Exploring Intersections,” by Teresa Berger.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 11
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 11, “Studying Byzantine Ukrainian Congregational Music in Canada: Considering Community and Diaspora,” by Marcia Ostashewski.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 10
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 10, “Researching Black Congregational Music from a Migratory Point of View: Methods, Challenges, and Strategies,” by Melvin L. Butler.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 9
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 9, “ ‘We Just Don’t Have It’: Addressing Whiteness in Congregational Voicing,” by Marissa Glynias Moore.
“Lift Each Other Up”: Punk, Politics, and Secularization at Christian Festivals
IASPM-US conference presentation (2021). When the members of Flatfoot 56, a Celtic punk band from Chicago, speak of “brotherhood” at AudioFeed, a Christian music festival, they refer to congregational cohesion; at a secular punk venue, however, scene unity is just as likely an interpretation. Whereas Christian punks sacralize secular places, such as the bars and nightclubs where they often perform, this paper suggests that bands like Flatfoot 56 might be thought to secularize sacred places (i.e., Christian festivals) by decentering U.S. evangelicalism’s most controversial public positions. Through an ethnographic analysis of Flatfoot 56 performances, considering what is sung/spoken aloud and what is not, this paper argues for a nuanced, mediating perspective that recognizes an ambivalence about identity politics among many evangelical subculturalists moving between secular and sacred spaces.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 8
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 8, “Congregation and Chorality: Fluidity and Distinction in the Voicing of Religious Community,” by Jeffers Engelhardt.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 7
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 7, “Political Economy and Capital in Congregational Music Studies: Commodities, Worshipers, and Worship,” by Andrew Mall.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 6
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 6, “Music Theology as the Mouthpiece of Science: Proving It through Congregational Music Studies,” by Bennett Zon.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 5
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 5, “Re-sounding the History of Christian Congregational Music,” by Sarah Eyerly.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 4
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 4, “Ethnography in the Study of Congregational Music,” by Jeff Todd Titon.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 3
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 3, “Mediating Religious Experience? Congregational Music and the Digital Music Interface,” by Anna E. Nekola.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 2
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 2, “Worshipping ‘With Everything’: Musical Analysis and Congregational Worship,” by Joshua Kalin Busman.
Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 1
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 1, “In Case You Don’t Have a Case: Reflections on Methods for Studying Congregational Song in Liturgical History,” by Lester Ruth.
Studying Congregational Music: Introduction
Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Introduction, “Interdisciplinarity and Epistemic Diversity in Congregational Music Studies,” by Andrew Mall, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Monique M. Ingalls.
Music Business, Ethics, and Christian Festivals: Progressive Christianity at Wild Goose Festival
Ethics and Christian Musicking, Routledge (2021). In this chapter, I consider the ways in which the business of music complicates the ethics and objectives of Christian music. I address some of the effects of yoking Christian music to the for-profit imperatives of entertainment conglomerates, but I quickly turn my attention to Christian festivals, which are unique places in which competing ethics find an equilibrium, albeit one that is always temporary and often uneasy.
“God Is My Girlfriend”: Christian Rock and Niche Genres with Andrew Mall
Money 4 Nothing podcast (2021). Christian music and especially Christian rock is a world of its own, a self-contained universe that mirrors the trends and styles of the mainstream. But how does it work? And what can it tell us about the interactions between audiences and industries that structure popular music? We talk to Andrew Mall, the author of God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music, to explore everything from the Jesus People to Christian metalcore, while discussing how the complex relationship between sacred and secular pop can help us understand the ethics, aesthetics, and boundaries that define musical genre.
Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives
Routledge, Congregational Music Studies Series (2021)
Professor Andrew Mall’s Recent Work in Popular Music Studies
Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media + Design (2021). Recently, Prof. Mall’s work engaging other scholars in popular music studies in an open conversation to address several challenges that they have encountered in their teaching, researching, and writing has resulted in three separate but related initiatives, including a symposium, a co-authored report in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and a co-edited forum in the journal Twentieth-Century Music.
Looking Towards the Future: Popular Music Studies and Music Scholarship
Twentieth-Century Music (2021). In this forum, we have collected articles from participants in a recent symposium on the future of popular music studies to reflect more deeply on the challenges we all face in in an increasingly diverse and divided world -- challenges of teaching, studying, comprehending, and embodying pop music in all its richness. The field must reckon with these challenges if it is to remain relevant, and in doing so (we argue) it perhaps models a way forward for music scholarship as a whole.
Autographed Bookplates for God Rock, Inc.
Promoting a new book during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic means no in-person events, and thus no easy way for me to autograph your copy of God Rock, Inc. But I found a middle ground: autographed, self-adhesive bookplates! If you have already purchased God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music and would like an autographed bookplate, free of charge, just contact me and let me know!
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