Liberating Congregational Singing: A Critical Engagement with Hymns, Songs, and Congregational Singing Practices Using Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Liberating Perspectives

• Main Author: Whitla, Becca
• Other Authors: Kervin, William, Pastoral
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Subjects: Liturgical theology; Practical theology; Decolonial; Postcolonial; Congregational Song; Church Music; Liberation Theology; Latina/o Theology; Singing; Choral Music; Victorian Hymnody; Hymnody; 0469; 0413; Canada; Fuller; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/99726

Drawing upon liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial scholarship, this thesis interrogates the colonizing forces in Western European and Anglo North Atlantic congregational singing. It is undertaken in the context of recent scholarly discourses on hymnody which have begun to uncover eurocentrism...