Church music through the lens of performance : the embodied ritual of sacred play.

Silva Steuernagel, Marcell, 1979-

Church music through the lens of performance : the embodied ritual of sacred play.

dc.contributor.advisor	Ingalls, Monique Marie.
dc.creator	Silva Steuernagel, Marcell, 1979-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-07T13:53:57Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-07T13:53:57Z
dc.date.created	2018-08
dc.date.issued	2018-06-11
dc.date.submitted	August 2018
dc.date.updated	2018-09-07T13:53:58Z
dc.description.abstract	Scholars who address religious music making in general, and Christian church music in particular, use “performance” in a variety of ways and under varying constellations of assumptions, creating confusion around the term and its uses. Similar complications characterize the way church music practitioners talk about performance. This dissertation is an investigation of church music through the lens of performance theory, with the aim of providing a vocabulary for church music scholars and practitioners to speak of church music as performance. The thesis of the research is that in the activity of church music, all involved are performing, be it from the platform or from the seats, in accordance with performance theory’s proposition that performance is both acting and doing (Schechner 2003). Using a hybrid methodology that couples theory from anthropology (specifically ritual studies), ethnomusicology, theology, and church music scholarship with ethnographic research, this dissertation establishes performance studies as a possible “next step” in church music scholarship, investigates church music from the perspectives of ritual, embodiment, and processes of making special, play and change. It also demonstrates the feasibility of studying church music as performance using the vocabulary developed in the dissertation. By providing a performance language for the study of church music, this dissertation contributes to scholarship and furthers interdisciplinary investigations of religious music making in context.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2104/10451
dc.language.iso	en
dc.rights.accessrights	Worldwide access.
dc.subject	Church music. Performance. Performance studies. Embodiment. Ritual. Liturgy. Music.
dc.title	Church music through the lens of performance : the embodied ritual of sacred play.
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.material	text
thesis.degree.department	Baylor University. School of Music.
thesis.degree.grantor	Baylor University
thesis.degree.level	Doctoral
thesis.degree.name	Ph.D.