The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities (Oxford Handbooks)

"Recommended."--Choice"The volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters." --Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions.The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict,

He has published in Ethnomusicology, the Journal of American Folklore, and Popular Music and Society, among other venues.. Suzel Ana Reily is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. She is the author of Voices of the Magi (Chicago, 2002). She has also edited The Music Human: Rethinking John Blacking's Ethnomusicology in the 21st Century (Ashgate, 2006) and Br