Hymns and Constructions of Race

ISBN-13: 9781032394534 / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str.

Opis

Hymns and Race examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Constructing Hymns and Race

Erin Johnson-Williams and Philip Burnett

Part I: Mobility

2 Tonic Sol-fa Abroad: Missionaries, Hymn Singing and Indigenous Communities

Robin Stevens

3 Chinese Hymns and Worship Practices as Global Mobility

Huijuan Hua and Shujin Zhang

4 The Faith and Politics of Emily Kathleen Hooper (1878–1974): Complicating the Analysis of Christian Worship Music and Western Styles of Music in China

Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde

Part II Agency

5 And Wash the Æthiop White: Whiteness as Salvation and the Reception History of Wesley’s Conversion Hymn

Daniel Johnson

6 Anglican Ritualism and Xhosa Hymnody: The Training and Contribution of Reverend Daniel Malgas

Andrew-John Bethke

7 We Become What We Sing: Hymnody as Control

June Boyce-Tillman

8 Co-Writing our Hymn for Liberation

Liz Gre

Part III Coloniality

9 Performing Race and Place Through Hymn-Singing: A Brazilian Perspective

Marcel Silva Steuernagel

10 Translations and Retranslations: Cherokee Hymnody and the Literary Endeavors of Elias Boudinot

T. Wyatt Reynolds and Abraham Wallace

11 Sounding Coloniality and Voicing Resistance

Becca Whitla

Part IV Decoloniality

12 Decolonising a Hymn through its Mobility: A Case of Re-Location and Altered Musical Aesthetics

Kgomotso Moshugi

13 Hybridizing Heritage: Hymns as Decolonial Practice amongst the Javanese Surinameses

Jun Kai Pow

14 Challenging the Hymn Canon of ‘Christian Otherness’: The Nigerian Christian Songs Project as Means of Musical Decolonization

Monique M. Ingalls, Ayobami A. Ayanyinka, and Mouma Emmanuella Chesirri

Foreword: Singing Down the Dividing Walls

C. Michael Hawn

O autorze

Erin Johnson-Williams is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Music at Durham University, UK.

Philip Burnett is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music at the University of York, UK.