Sounding Back and Forth: Dimensions and Directions of Resonance in Congregational Musicking
The concept of authenticity has become increasingly ubiquitous within both contemporary social and cultural analysis and within studies of congregational music. In this paper, I suggest that it has become stretched through overuse, but that it can be usefully supplemented through the concept of reso...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 85, Issue: 2, Pages: 446-469 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church congregation
/ Church music
/ Resonance
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CH Christianity and Society RD Hymnology |
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| Summary: | The concept of authenticity has become increasingly ubiquitous within both contemporary social and cultural analysis and within studies of congregational music. In this paper, I suggest that it has become stretched through overuse, but that it can be usefully supplemented through the concept of resonance. I survey existing social and sonic usages of “resonance” and suggest the need to hold together a number of different understandings in order to take advantage of the term’s expansive ability to point towards the multi-directional and multi-dimensional complexes of relationships that surround the activity of congregational music. I suggest, rather than aiming to arrive at a strict definition of resonance as a phenomenon, that it is useful to allow the concept a degree of messiness and suggest, instead, that a list of questions might serve as a useful starting point for further exploration. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw078 |