Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age

Introduction: Worship Music as Media Form and Mediated Practice: Theorizing the Intersections of Media, Music and Lived ReligionAnna E. NekolaPart 1. Technology, Place and Practice 1. Music as a Mediated Object, Music as a Medium: Towards a Media Ecological View of Congregational MusicTom Wagner2. Music, Ritual and Media in Charismatic Religious Experience in GhanaFlorian Carl3. Panoptic or Pastoral Gaze? The Worship Leader in the New Media EnvironmentTanya Riches4. Who Gets to Sing in the Kingdom? Ruth King GoddardPart 2. Community Creation 5. `This is a Chance to Come Together\': Subcultural Resistance and Community at Cornerstone Festival Andrew Mall6. `Through Every Land, By Every Tongue\': Diasporic and National Consciousness Among a Transnational Community of Sacred Harp Singers Ellen Lueck7. YouTube: The New Mediator of Christian Community Daniel Thornton and Mark Evans8. Belonging, Integration and Tradition: Mediating Romani Identity Through Pentecostal Praise & Worship MusicKinga PovedakPart 3. Embodied Sonic Theologies9. On the Inherent Contradiction in Worship MusicAllan F. Moore10. `Yet to Come\' or `Still to Be Done\'?: Evangelical Worship and the Power of `Prophetic\' SongsJosh Busman11. Happiness and Music: Salvific Practice in a Feelgood AgeClive Marsh12. The Dance + Pray Worship Experience in Finland: Negotiating the Transcendent and Transgressive in Search of Alternative Sensational Forms and Affective SpaceMarcus MobergAfterword: Of Animatrons and Eschatology: Congregational Music, Mediation and World-MakingMonique M. Ingalls