Call for Papers
Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference
Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom
4-7 August 2015
Congregational music-making is a vital and vibrant practice within
Christian communities worldwide. It reflects, informs, and articulates
convictions and concerns that are irreducibly local even as it flows along
global networks. Congregational song can unify communities of faith across
geographical and cultural boundaries; however, it can also be used to mark
divisions between Christians of different denominations, cultural
backgrounds, and social classes, and to negotiate or articulate difference
in relation to religious outsiders. We therefore cannot understand the
meanings, uses, and influences of congregational music within Christianity
without exploring both its local contexts and its translocal,
transnational, and global circulation.
The third biennial Christian Congregational Music conference will be held
in 2015. Its goal is to expand the avenues of scholarly inquiry into
congregational music-making by bringing together world-class scholars and
practitioners to explore the varying cultural, social, and spiritual roles
church music plays in the life of various Christian communities around the
world. To this end, the conference facilitates a multifaceted dialogue
among participants from a variety of academic disciplines, including
musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, anthropology, history, and
education.
The 2015 conference is focused on a sustained reflection about the
theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches used to study
congregational music. What new methodological approaches‹whether from the
hard sciences, social sciences, humanities, or theological disciplines‹can
be brought to bear on timely research questions, such as congregational
music's relation to indigenization, transnationalism, religious
experience, and ethics? What new understandings about congregational music
are generated with the introduction of theoretical perspectives from, for
example, gender studies, postcolonial thought, neuroscience, or political
economy? Although the Programme Committee will prioritise papers that
bring new insights to any aspect of theory or methodology, papers
addressing other topics relevant to Christian congregational music are
also welcomed.
We are now accepting proposals (maximum 250 words) for individual papers
and for organised panels consisting of three papers. The online proposal
form can be found on the conference website at
http://congregationalmusic.org/content/proposals.
Proposals must be received by 12 December 2014.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 26 January 2015, and
conference registration will begin on 31 January 2015. Further
instructions and information will be made available on the conference
website at http://congregationalmusic.org.
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