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Exploring Musical Junctures of Choice within Contemporary Church Congregations: A Case Study Exploring Musical Junctures of Choice within Contemporary Church Congregations: A Case Study
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A Genealogy of Worship: Musical Positioning throughout St. Bartholomew’s History A Genealogy of Worship: Musical Positioning throughout St. Bartholomew’s History
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Constructing a Musical Platform: Liturgical Positioning through Songs, Styles, and Performance Practices Constructing a Musical Platform: Liturgical Positioning through Songs, Styles, and Performance Practices
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St. Bartholomew’s Church’s Musical “Stew”: Worship Songs as Active Repertory and Repertory of Action St. Bartholomew’s Church’s Musical “Stew”: Worship Songs as Active Repertory and Repertory of Action
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Finding the Church’s Voice: Strategic Positioning through Worship Song and Style Selection Finding the Church’s Voice: Strategic Positioning through Worship Song and Style Selection
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Projecting the Church’s Voice Outward: Musical Binding and Loosing in Two Special Events Projecting the Church’s Voice Outward: Musical Binding and Loosing in Two Special Events
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Alternative Musical Spaces: Modeling Worship in Youth Services Alternative Musical Spaces: Modeling Worship in Youth Services
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Conclusion: Contemporary Worship Music, Reconstruction, and the Via Media Conclusion: Contemporary Worship Music, Reconstruction, and the Via Media
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Notes Notes
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3 Finding the Church’s Voice: Contemporary Worship as Musical Positioning in a Nashville Church Congregation
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Published:October 2018
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Abstract
Chapter 3 provides a detailed ethnographic portrait of music in a local church congregation in which contemporary worship music serves an important—and often strategic—means of positioning. Examining the choices of congregational music repertory, style, and performance practice at St. Bartholomew’s Church, an “evangelical Episcopal” church in Nashville, Tennessee, reveals how church leaders and congregation members use music to navigate the church’s relationship with other area churches, denominational traditions, and church networks. The church’s choice of worship songs and styles constitutes what one church leader referred to as the church’s unique “voice,” in other words, its identity and position relative to other congregations and within networks. Though the church’s voice is constructed in part from broadly circulating discourses and practices within contemporary worship music, the case study of St. Bartholomew’s shows that this song repertory is also subject to imaginative reinterpretation within local church contexts.
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