CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONAL MUSIC Local & Global Perspectives 30TH July – 2ND August 2019, Ripon College Cuddesdon SPONSORED BY THE PRATT GREEN TRUST A charity whose principal aim is to further the cause of hymnody CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Tuesday, 30TH July Lounge ORGANISING COMMITTEE 09.30 A: Graham Room B: Harriet Monsell 10.30 Morning Roundtable Morning Workshop The Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy, Christ Church, Oxford Lift Every Voice and Sing: Sacred Song from the Dr Monique Ingalls, Baylor University Congregational Music Jewish and Muslim and the Black Atlantic Traditions: A Musical Dr Birgitta Johnson, University of South Carolina Discussion moderated by Workshop Lead by Dr. Dr. Birgitta Johnson Abigail Wood and Dr. Sahil Dr Anna Nekola, Canadian Mennonite University Warsi Dr Mark Porter, Universität Erfurt 13.00 REGISTRATION LUNCH Dr Abigail Wood, University of Haifa & TEA Afternoon Roundtable Afternoon Workshop 14.30 Thinking about Shared How We Got Over: www.congregationalmusic.org and Disparate Practices Congregational Music from in Congregational Music: the One Lord, One Faith, A Discussion Among One Baptism African People of the Book. American Ecumenical Discussion moderated by Hymnal Lecture- Dr. Mark Porter demonstration led by Dr. James Abbington 17.00 CONFERENCE WELCOME – Ripon College Cuddesdon Chapel 18.00 DINNER 19.30 DRINKS RECEPTION (–21.00) 1 Wednesday, 31ST July 08.30 BREAKFAST (residential delegates) 09.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS – Harriet Monsell Lecture Theatre (Chair: Abigail Wood) Emma Hornby Processional chants in early medieval Iberia: bishops, deacons, congregations and liturgical spaces Jean Kidula The Language God Speaks 11.00 TEA PANEL SESSION 1 A: Harriet Monsell A B: Harriet Monsell B C: Graham Room D: Colin Davison Room Black British Gospel Music I Congregational Music in Asia Methodology, Theology and Warfare, Patriotism, and Maligned (Chair: Pauline Muir) (Chair: Abigail Wood) Epistemology Texts in Congregational Music (Chair: Mark Porter) (Chair: Anna Nekola) 11.30 Dulcie Dixon McKenzie Emilie Rook Bennett Zon Daniel Johnson The Roots of Black Gospel Music in Mapping Catholic Congregational Music Music Theology as the Mouthpiece of 'The Battle Belongs to the Lord': The Britain Material in Indonesia: Power, Politics, Science: Methodologizing Place of the Warfare Motif in and a Post-Colonial Social Poetic Congregational Music Studies Contemporary Worship Songs 12.00 Matthew Williams Heather MacLachlan Jeffrey Wright Gillian Warson The Legacy of the Windrush Explaining the ubiquitous presentational To Open the Heavens of Better Times: Gathering Rushes and Playing in the Generation in Black British Gospel musicking in Burmese congregations Transcendence in a Post-Secular Age Meadows: All Things Bright and Music Beautiful for Today's Congregations 12.30 Pauline Muir Kenelm Ka Lun Chan Joshua Busman Hannah Snavely Sounds of Blackness? Survey and Identification of Mandarin 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one We've a Kingdom to Send to the Translation within Christian must be silent': A Theological Salvo from Nations: Performing Christian Congregational Music a Vulgar Materialist Patriotism in a Flag Ceremony 13.00 LUNCH 2 Wednesday, 31ST July PANEL SESSION 2 A: Harriet Monsell A B: Harriet Monsell B C: Graham Room D: Colin Davison Room Learning to Lead: Historical Comparative Religious Musical Practices of Power on the Platform Voice and Vocality Perspectives on Musical Ontologies and in the Pews (Chair: Alisha Jones) Leadership for the Congregation (Chair: Alison Mc Letchie) (Chair: Anna Nekola) (Chair: Adam Perez) 14.30 Glenn Stallsmitih Matt Gillan Martin Clarke Noel Snyder Learning to Worship from the Heart Contesting Sacred Sound - The Preachers, Power, and Preference: Using The Spiritual Voice: Connecting construction of Buddhist musical a New Hymnal in a Methodist Church Preaching and Congregational aesthetics in pre-WWII Japan Song 15.00 Adam Perez Rumi Umino Melanie Ross Catherine Williams Contemporary Praise and Worship Locality, Traditionality or Religiousness: A Commanded to Sing?: Musical Authority Preaching Songs and Singing Leader Training: Implicit and case study on a music team of a and Congregational Resistance Preachers: The Symbiosis of Explicit Curriculum in 1980’s Japanese local shrine Congregational Singing and Worship Conference Guidebooks Preaching in Afro-Trinbagonian Congregations 15.30 Jonathan Ottaway Janice Protopapas Julia Escribano Blanco Adan Fernandez The Rise of the Worship Degree: Sikh Liturgical Song from Dawn to Dusk: Official Catholicism and Traditional Sacred Counterpoint: The Balance Changes in the Preparation of an Ontology of Enlightenment and Singing: (Dis)encounters between Between Emotion and Reason in Professional Musicians for Illumination Vatican Precepts and National the 16th Century Motet Congregational Singing Congresses of Sacred Music in Spain (1907-1954) 16.00 TEA 3 Wednesday, 31ST July PANEL SESSION 3 A: Harriet Monsell A B: Harriet Monsell B C: Graham Room D: Colin Davison Room Congregational Music in Choir and Community, Choir as Black British Gospel Music II Sacred Music at the Intersections Immigrant and Minority Community (Chair: Monique Ingalls) of Race, Gender, and Sex Communities (Chair: Abigail Wood) (Chair: Alisha Jones) (Chair: Hannah Snavely) 16.30 Bo kyung Blenda Im Costin Moisil Monique Ingalls Ambre Dromgoole Affect, Vulnerability, and the Choir That Is, Congregation: Liturgical ‘The Gospel Choir is My Church’: "I'll Keep On Living After I Die": Surfacing of the Ecclesial Body: Singing in a Small Orthodox Church – Community Gospel Choirs as Spiritual Exploring Songwriter Roxie Ann Contemporary Worship Music in A Case Study Modes of Congregating in the Moore, Gospel Music, and the Transpacific Modernity Contemporary United Kingdom Historical Record 17.00 Evanthia Patsiaoura Andrew Mall Samson Onafuye Caroline Lesemann-Elliott Musicking in the Spirit: ‘Beer and Hymns’ and 'This is My Story, This is My Song’: Online Developing Approaches to (trans)localities of Nigerian Congregational Song: Participatory Manifestations of Urban Contemporary Integration of Works by Female Pentecostal worship in the Diaspora Sing-alongs as Community Black-British Gospel music Composers Into Sacred Choral Repertoire: An Oxford-Based Ethnography 17.30 Onur Yoş and Jeremy Perigo Keith Thomasson Alexander Douglas Stephanie Budwey Unknown, Unnoticed, Unheard Nourishing Spirituality and Faith Beyond Aesthetics and Emotion: A Tempered Bodies, Tempered İlahiler: Turkish-Christian Hymnody Through Singing in a Community Philosophical Reflection on Gospel Music Voices: Giving Voice to Queer as Public Liturgical Meaning Choir Praxis Creation 18.00 DINNER 19:30 ROUTLEDGE MONOGRAPH PUBLISHING WORKSHOP (–21.30) 4 Thursday, 1ST August 08.30 BREAKFAST (residential delegates) 09.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Harriet Monsell Lecture Theatre (Chair: Anna Nekola) John Witvliet Symphonic Scholarship and the Strengthening of Congregational Song Monique Ingalls Book Preview: Methodologies for the study of Congregational Music 11.00 TEA PANEL SESSION 4 A: Harriet Monsell A B: Harriet Monsell B C: Graham Room D: Colin Davison Room Worship Ministry Serving the Communities and Traditions in Interrogating Whiteness and Contemporary Topics in the Black Congregation Transition Cultural Borrowing in North Atlantic (Chair: Mark Porter) (Chair: Kathryn King) American Musical Worship (Chair: Birgitta Johnson) (Chair: Nathan Myrick) 11.30 Sarah Bereza Richard Hubbard Marcell Silva Steuernagel Martina Prosén Wholehearted Ministry for Reimagining the Role of the Choir in Rural Brown Worshiper in White Skin: Worship as affective bodily practice: Professional Christian Musicians Churches Perspectives on the Body in Church dance and dress among urban, middle- Music Practices class charismatics in Nairobi, Kenya 12.00 Leena Lampinen Nancy Graham Marissa Moore Stephanie Boddie Serving God, Serving Using Paperless Music in Urban Services Congregational Whiteness and the Unfinished Business: From the Great Congregation: Lutheran Choirs Unattainable Black Voice Migration to Black Lives Matter in Northern Tanzania 12.30 Erin Fulton Inge Engelbrecht Nathan Myrick Birgitta Johnson Justina Bean’s 'Songs of Zion' as The South African Koortjie Phenomenon as White, comma… : The Ethics of ‘Hallelujah, Anyhow!’: Pioneering Gospel a Document of Lived Religion Cultural Narrative, Coloured Representation Whiteness in Christian Choirs in Praise and Worship Music of and Commercial Enterprise Communities the Late 20th Century 13.00 LUNCH 14.30 EXCURSION TO OXFORD (-22.30) Christ Church Cathedral and City tours, Choral Eucharist, and Reception at the Deanery Delegates will then be free to make their own dinner arrangements in the city 5 Friday, 2ND August 08.30 BREAKFAST (residential delegates) 09.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS – Harriet Monsell Lecture Theatre (Chair: Mark Porter) Helen Phelan ‘Three Candles that Illume Every Darkness’: Singing, Hospitality and the Sacred Stranger Jonathan Arnold Music and Faith in a Post-Secular Age 11.00 TEA PANEL SESSION 5 A: Harriet Monsell A B: Harriet Monsell B C: Graham Room D: Colin Davison Room Congregation and Choir in Northern Identity and Power in Post- Practices of Power Beyond the Analysing Contemporary Europe Colonial Black Spaces Congregation Congregational Songs (Chair: Monique Ingalls) (Chair: Alison Mc Letchie ) (Chair: Anna Nekola) (Chair: Emily Rook) 11.30 Samuli Korkalainen Rebecca Uberoi Mirella Klomp Nathan Burggraff Congregation, Choir and Four-part The Talking Drum