Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138307650)

Monique M. Ingalls is Assistant Professor of Music at Baylor University. Her research explores the effects of recent social, cultural, and technological change on evangelical and charismatic Christian congregational music-making in North America and beyond. She has co-editor several books on Christian congregational music topics and is co-founder and Series Editor of Routledge's Congregational Music Studies Series.

Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg is a research development manager (strategy) and visiting fellow at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia. She holds a doctorate in applied ethnomusicology. Her research has focussed on Australian Aboriginal Lutheran choral singing, applied research, the anthropology of Christianity, ethics and the relationship between music, health and well-being. She has published several book chapters and articles in her field focussing on Australian Aboriginal choral singing and constructs of identity through performance.

Zoe C. Sherinian is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of the book Tamil Folk Music As Dalit Liberation Theology (Indiana University Press, 2014) and producer of the documentary film This Is A Music: Reclaiming An Untouchable Drum, which won the University of Oklahoma's Outstanding Research Impact Award. Her journal publications include articles in Ethnomusicology, Worlds of Music, Women and Music, and Religion Compass. She has received numerous grants to make her next documentary film on women parai drummers and their syncretic ritual practices at the Sakthi Folk Cultural Centre.