1st Edition
Hymns and Constructions of Race Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality
1 Introduction: Constructing Hymns and Race
Erin Johnson-Williams and Philip Burnett
Part I: Mobility
2 Tonic Sol-fa Abroad: Missionaries, Hymn Singing and Indigenous Communities
Robin Stevens
3 Chinese Hymns and Worship Practices as Global Mobility
Huijuan Hua and Shujin Zhang
4 The Faith and Politics of Emily Kathleen Hooper (1878–1974): Complicating the Analysis of Christian Worship Music and Western Styles of Music in China
Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde
Part II Agency
5 And Wash the Æthiop White: Whiteness as Salvation and the Reception History of Wesley’s Conversion Hymn
Daniel Johnson
6 Anglican Ritualism and Xhosa Hymnody: The Training and Contribution of Reverend Daniel Malgas
Andrew-John Bethke
7 We Become What We Sing: Hymnody as Control
June Boyce-Tillman
8 Co-Writing our Hymn for Liberation
Liz Gre
Part III Coloniality
9 Performing Race and Place Through Hymn-Singing: A Brazilian Perspective
Marcel Silva Steuernagel
10 Translations and Retranslations: Cherokee Hymnody and the Literary Endeavors of Elias Boudinot
T. Wyatt Reynolds and Abraham Wallace
11 Sounding Coloniality and Voicing Resistance
Becca Whitla
Part IV Decoloniality
12 Decolonising a Hymn through its Mobility: A Case of Re-Location and Altered Musical Aesthetics
Kgomotso Moshugi
13 Hybridizing Heritage: Hymns as Decolonial Practice amongst the Javanese Surinameses
Jun Kai Pow
14 Challenging the Hymn Canon of ‘Christian Otherness’: The Nigerian Christian Songs Project as Means of Musical Decolonization
Monique M. Ingalls, Ayobami A. Ayanyinka, and Mouma Emmanuella Chesirri
Foreword: Singing Down the Dividing Walls
C. Michael Hawn
Biography
Erin Johnson-Williams is Lecturer in Music Education and Social Justice in the Department of Music at the University of Southampton, UK.
Philip Burnett is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music at the University of York, UK.
