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The Spirit and the Song

Pneumatological Reflections on Popular Music
Buch | Hardcover
250 Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1638-4 (ISBN)
109,70 inkl. MwSt
This book considers how music can transport listeners beyond themselves. Both music and the Spirit operate between languages and cultures, between desires and longings, between the visible and invisible, and between the deep and near. Thus, the Spirit, through music, unites and gathers communities, revealing new possibilities.
The Spirit and the Song:Pneumatological Reflections on Popular Music explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in music. It offers three distinct contributions: first, it asks what, if anything, music tells listeners about God’s Spiritedness. Can the experience of music speak to human spiritedness, the world’s transcendentality, or a person’s own self-transcendence in ways nothing else does or can? Second, this book explores how the Spirit functions within, and even determines, culture through music. Because music is a profound human expression, it can find itself in a rich dialogue with the Spirit. Third and finally, this book explores the contested status of music in Christian spiritual traditions. It deals with music as inspired by the Spirit, music as participation in Spiritedness, and music as temptation of “the flesh.” As such, this book also engages music’s placement in Christian spiritual traditions. The contributors of this book ask how Christian convictions about and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about music.

Chris E.W. Green is professor of public theology at Southeastern University and director for St Anthony Institute of Theology, Philosophy, and Liturgics. Steven Félix-Jägeris associate professor and chair of the Worship Arts and Media program at Life Pacific University.

Introduction: Music Makes the World New, by Chris E.W. Green

Part I: Music, Affect, and the Spirit

Chapter 1: Thus Sings the Lord: The Spirit, the Body, and the Mystical Nature of Singing, by Chris E.W. Green

Chapter 2: The Sacred Song: How Divine Creativity is Revealed in the Physics and Metaphysics of Music, by Edwin Rodríguez-Gungor

Chapter 3: We Feel Fire When It’s Hot: Affect and Manipulation in Music, by Steven Félix-Jäger

Chapter 4: “Everything Means Nothing to Me”: The Spirit of Wisdom within Qoheleth, Kierkegaard’s Either/Or, and the Elliott Smith Songbook, by Sophia A. Magallanes-Tsang

Part II: Music as Cultural Expression

Chapter 5: The Spirit-Haunted Lyrics of Jason Isbell, by Amber Benson

Chapter 6: The Spirit in Neoclassical, Wordless Music, by Marc Byrd and Aaron Gabriel Ross

Chapter 7: Spiritual Longing in the Music of Jimmy Hendrix, by Blaine Charette

Chapter 8: “The Answer, My Friend”: A Pneumatological Reading of “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan, by Jeff S. Lamp

Chapter 9: Rivers Underneath: The Quickening of the Spirit in Underground Music, by Jeremy Lee Hunt

Part III: Music in Christian Worship and Witness

Chapter 10: “There is a Cloud”: The Holy Spirit in Contemporary Worship Songs, by Shannan Baker

Chapter 11: When the Spirit Moves: Black Gospel Music as Embodied Witness, by Jennifer Thigpenn

Chapter 12: “Oh Happy Day”: The Migration and Reclamation of the Soul of Pentecostal Faith, by Kimberly Ervin Alexander

Chapter 13: Global Spirit and Globalizing spirits: Worship Song’s Role in Turkish Liturgical Identity, by Jeremy Perigo

Chapter 14: “We Were All Vibing the Same Way”: Luthercostality in South Brazil, by Marcell Silva Steuernagel

Conclusion: The Classic Fade Out, by Steven Félix-Jäger

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Co-Autor Kimberly Ervin Alexander, Shannan K. Baker, Amber Benson
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 236 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10 1-9787-1638-9 / 1978716389
ISBN-13 978-1-9787-1638-4 / 9781978716384
Zustand Neuware
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