1st Edition
Music, Branding and Consumer Culture in Church Hillsong in Focus
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 – Hillsong in its Socio-Historical Context
2 – Hillsong Church: A Musical Brandscape
3 – In, But Not Of, The (Christian) Culture Industry
4 – ‘With One Accord’: Brand Identity and Participation
5 – The ‘Hillsong Sound’: Hearing Place in the Hillsong Network
6 – Learning to Listen
Conclusion
Biography
Tom Wagner is a London-based percussionist and ethnomusicologist. He is currently a Lecturer in Musicology and Ethnomusicology at University of Manchester, having previously held positions at University of Edinburgh and Royal Holloway, University of London. His writing on Hillsong has appeared in the Australian Journal of Communication (co-authored with Tanya Riches), Journal of World Popular Music, and the edited volume Religion as Brands: New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality (Ashgate, 2014). He is also the co-editor (with Tanya Riches) of the collection The Hillsong Movement Examined: You Call Me Out Upon the Waters (Palgrave, 2017).
