Negotiating the Sounds of Born-Again Christianity

Aesthetic Provocations in Western Ethiopia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4317670
AutoresYotam Gidron (0000-0002-1408-7085, Durham University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas490-516
Fecha de publicación2021-08-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMaterial Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1743-2200 • E-ISSN: 1751-8342
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17432200.2021.1959281
OpenAlexW3196829972
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas30

This paper discusses the role of hymns and musical practices in the articulation of Christian subjectivities among Nuer communities in western Ethiopia. It examines how the members of two fundamentalist born-again groups responded to the Pentecostalization of the local Christian soundscape over the past two decades, focusing on the distinct approaches they adopted for the production and performance of hymns and the authorization of Christian music. Born-again musical practices, it is argued, take shape through a constant process of public argumentation, fuelled by a ceaseless quest for divine authenticity. Believers from different churches are therefore engaged not in destructive conflicts over the domination of public spaces, as some accounts of tensions over religious sound from elsewhere in Africa may suggest, but in constant provocations and debates that are both of a productive nature and inherent to the endless political project of born-again subjectivation

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Argumentation theory · Art · Articulation (sociology · Christianity · Epistemology · Literature · Musical · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sound (geography · Soundscape · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious studies