1st Edition

Singing the Gospel along Scotland's North-East Coast, 1859-2009

By Frances Wilkins Copyright 2018
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Following three years of ethnomusicological fieldwork on the sacred singing traditions of evangelical Christians in North-East Scotland and Northern Isles coastal communities, Frances Wilkins documents and analyses current singing practices in this book by placing them historically and contemporaneously within their respective faith communities. In ascertaining who the singers were and why, when,... Read more

PART I HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS 1. Introduction  2. ‘An Evangelical Hurricane’: Global and Local Contexts of Revival 3. ‘Will Your Anchor Hold?’: Evangelical Hymnody and the Fishing Industry 4. ‘Just in Time I Saw the Light’: Praise Nights in the Deep Sea Mission 5. ‘Waiting for the Call’: Precentors and Pitch-pipes in the Brethren Assemblies 6. ‘Praise the Lord, We’ll all be There’: Singing in The Gospel Male Voice Choirs PART II CASE STUDIES: PRACTITIONERS, COMMUNITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE 7. ‘Scotland for Christ’: North-East Scotland’s Family Singing Groups 8. From the Church to the Public Sphere: The Secular Face of the Gospel 9. Gifts from the Holy Spirit: Contemporary Song Composition in North-East Scottish Evangelicalism 10. ‘I Raise My Hand’: Inter-Generational Concerns and the Concept of the ‘Worship Group’ 11. Singing in Evangelicalism along Scotland’s North-East Coast and in the Northern Isles: A Summary

Biography

Frances Wilkins is a lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK.

This is a welcome addition to the literature, and I can only hope that further work will be forthcoming.

Mark Porter - Folk Music Journal