2021 Annual Meeting Schedule
Notes:
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Thursday, February 25
Welcome and Plenary Session
9:30a Central Standard Time
Music and Racial Identity in the U.S. Church
9:45a–11:15a Central Standard Time
Emmett G. Price III, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, chair
Mourning, Judgement, and Resurrection: Christian Imagery in Reconstruction Era Music
Thomas Kernan, Roosevelt University
Will Marion Cook: Song Writer and Theologian
Michael Chikinda, University of Utah
My Chains are Gone: Images of Enslavement and Freedom in Contemporary Worship Music
Anneli Loepp Thiessen, University of Ottawa, and David Bjorlin, North Park University
Lunch Break: 11:15a-12:45p CST
Concurrent Sessions
12:45p–1:45p Central Standard Time
Session 2a
New Music for Our Present World
Deborah Justice, Cornell University, chair
“The Angel of Doubt”: Ancient Wisdom Poetry in the Music of the Punch Brothers
Hannah Porter Denecke, Florida State University
Chembe Cha Moyo (Arrow in my Heart): Song in a Strange Land, 2020
Jennifer Thomas, University of Florida
Session 2b
Improvisation and the Holy Spirit
Donté Ford, Wheaton College, chair
“Reclaiming our Pentecostal Identity?” Music and Charisma in Ghana Methodist Churches
John Dankwa, Wesleyan University
When a Song is a Prayer (and also a Song): The Bleeding Categories of Evangelical Worship Service Structures
Glenn Stallsmith, Duke University Divinity School
Stretch Break: 1:45p-2:00p CST
Concurrent Sessions
2:00p–3:30p Central Standard Time
Session 3a
Church Music of Immigrant Communities
Adam Perez, Duke University Divinity School, chair
The Dallas Tamil Church and Musical Flow
Rachel Schuck, University of North Texas
Anglican Church Music in the United States: Tracing the Diaspora of English Traditions from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Matthew Hoch, Auburn University
Songs in a Foreign Land: A Saga of Wendish Lutheran Hymn Singing in Nineteenth-Century Texas
Benjamin Kolodziej, Southern Methodist University
Session 3b
CCM (Churches Controlling Music)
Joshua Waggener, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, chair
A “Musical Dictator”: Leo Sowerby’s Authoritarian Philosophy of Church Music
Joseph Sargent, University of Alabama
The Search for Musical Identity: The Journey of the Southern Baptist Convention to Establish Denominational Standards in Its Musical Practices (1938-1944)
Andrew Lucius, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Satan Sounds: The Ontology and Efficacy of the Sonic in Evangelical Anti-Rock Literature
Philip Bixby, Yale University
Graduate Student Reception, 7:30pm CST
Conference events begin again at 9:30am Central Standard Time, Friday, February 26.
(This page will update with each day’s schedule)
Friday, February 26
Concurrent Sessions
9:30–10:30 Central Standard Time
Session 4a
Transmissions of Christian Song
Pedro Aponte, James Madison University, chair
Missa Baclayana and 19th C. Hispanic Philippine Liturgical Repertoire: Reconciling music ficta and Compositional Practices
Peter Fielding, Kennesaw State University
Between Embodied Performance and Digital Media: Theorizing Carpatho-Rusyn Chant
Peter Kohanski, University of North Texas
Session 4b
Contemporary Passion Settings
Chelle Stearns, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
Christ in the Concert Hall: The Resurrection of the Passion in the 21st Century
Breck McGough, Baylor University
“Who do you say that I am?”: Signifying “Jesusness” in James MacMillan’s Passions
Samantha Arten, Washington University in St. Louis, and Isaac Arten, Saint Louis University
Stretch Break: 10:30a-10:45a CST
Concurrent Sessions
10:45a–11:45a Central Standard Time
Session 5a
Lecture Recital
Eftychia Papanikolaou, Bowling Green State University, chair
Paraliturgical Songs of the Greek Islands
Panayotis League, Florida State University
Session 5b
Lecture Recital
Mark Peters, Trinity Christian College, chair
New Sacred Music as an Ecumenical Resource for Faith Formation: An Interactive Introduction to Deus Ex Musica
Delvyn Case, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Deus Ex Musica
Lunch Break: 11:45a-1:00p CST
Concurrent Sessions
1:00p–2:00p Central Standard Time
Session 6a
Simplicity and Silence, or . . . ?
Michael O’Connor, University of St. Michael’s College, chair
“A Puzzle to Myself”: Augustine and Musical Simplicity
Bennett Zon, Durham University
Familiarity and Discomfort: Silence and Noise in Musical Worship
Michael Huerter, Baylor University
Session 6b
Listening to Learn
Vicki Bell, Asbury University
“We’ll Understand it Better By and By”: African American Spirituals in the Theory Classroom
Lauren Hartburg, Florida State University
The Global Encounter as Communitas: Inter-Pilgrim Musicking along the Contemporary Camino de Santiago
Hannah Snavely, University of California, Riverside
Stretch Break: 2:00p-2:15p CST
Plenary Session
2:15p–3:15p Central Standard Time
Session 7
Panel discussion: Liturgies for Change
Hannah Porter Denecke, Florida State University, chair
In a year that has been rife with disease, violence, racism, political tension, injustices and inequalities of all kinds, many have turned to liturgy to find their place in the world. Musical and prayerful lament, both private and public, have come to characterize many of the religious spaces in which we find ourselves. Whether in our homes and personal lives, or in our churches, classrooms, and workspaces, each of us engages with liturgy. In this panel, church musicians, graduate students, and professionals come together in conversation about personal and public liturgies that can lead us towards restoration and justice for the broken world we live in today.
Anneli Loepp Thiessen, graduate student and church musician, pursuing the PhD in Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Ottawa
Jordan Mance, church musician, Alpha & Omega Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, IL
Stephen Michael Newby, Professor of Music; Director of Composition; Director of the Center for Worship at Seattle Pacific University
Emmett G. Price III, Professor of Worship; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; pastor; musician
Shanice Richards, church musician, New Life United Methodist Church & Florida A&M University Wesley Foundation; College of Music administrative staff at Florida State University
Chelle Stearns, Associate Professor of Theology, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology (cstearns@theseattleschool.edu)
Plenary Session
3:15p–4:00p Central Standard Time
Session 8
Poster Session
Brief presentation, followed by discussion
Cathy Elias, DePaul University, chair
Changes in Contemporary Worship 1990s-2015
Shannan Baker, Baylor University
Harmony and the Transcendentals: How a Trinitarian Understanding of Music Could Heal a Broken World
Andreas Kramarz, Legion of Christ College of Humanities
Psalms of Lament as Response to Suffering in the context of Korean Lament Psalms to express Han
Deborah Park, University of Toronto
The Ecumenical Movement and its Impact of Current American, German, and Korean Protestant Hymnals
Sa Ra Park, Texas State University
The Symphonizing of Theosis in Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms
Sylvia Santoso, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Seeking an Anglican Theology of Music
Joel West, Cranmer Theological House
Conference activities resume at 9:30am CST, Saturday February 27
(This page will update with each day's schedule.)
Saturday, February 27
Concurrent Sessions
9:30–10:30 Central Standard Time
Session 9a
Theoretical Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Sacred Music
David Heetderks, University of North Texas, chair
Theological Contexts for Virtuosity: Listening to Messiaen’s Vingts regards sur l’enfant-Jésus (1944)
Stephanie Venturino, Eastman School of Music and David Keep, Hope College
Non-functional Triadic Syntax in 20th-Century British Choral Music
Christopher Blakey, Durham University
Session 9b
Local and Global
Marcell Steuernagel, Southern Methodist University, chair
Burmese Christian Musicking and the Two-Fold Legacy of Adoniram Judson
Heather MacLachlan, University of Dayton
Localization versus Globalization: Appraising the “Noise” in Ghanian Charismatic Congregational Worship
Eric Amouzou, Baylor University
Stretch Break: 10:30a-10:45a CST
Concurrent Sessions
10:45a–11:45a Central Standard Time
Session 10a
Sacred Music for the Nineteenth-Century Concert
Siegwart Reichwald, Converse College, chair
“The Artist’s Highest Goal:” Navigating the History and Potential of Church Music in Robert Schumann’s Missa Sacra, Op. 147 (1852)
Sonja Wermager, Columbia University
Felix Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang: “Imaginary Church Music” or a Sublime Symphony?
Joshua Waggener, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Session 10b
New Perspectives on Modern Worship Music
Nathan Myrick, Mercer University, chair
Can Worship Songs About Me Be Good? The Surprising Value of the “CCM” Movement as Viewed through Marion’s Phenomenological Lens
Christina George, Xavier University
Of Animatronic Praise Bands and Worship Leading Chickens: Locating the Sacred through Evangelical Christian Worship Music Parodies
Monique Ingalls, Baylor University
Lunch Break: 11:45a-12:45p CST
Concurrent Sessions
12:45p–1:45p Central Standard Time
Session 11a
Histories of Modern Worship Music in the Global South
Cory Hunter, Eastman School of Music, chair
Marcos Witt’s “Trono de Alabanza:” An Initial Exploration into the Musical and Theological History of Latin American Praise and Worship
Adam Perez, Duke University Divinity School
Negotiations of Identity and Faith in Brazilian Christian Music from the 1960s to the 1980s
Marcell Silva Steuernagel, Southern Methodist University
Session 11b
Arvo Pärt
Andrew Shenton, Boston University, chair
Arvo Pärt’s Stabat Mater: Musical Sighs Amidst the Mantric Minimalist Trope
Aleksandra Drozzina, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Pärt, the Cosmic Artisan: Tintinnabuli as a “Sober Gesture”
Tyler Thress, Ohio University
Stretch Break: 1:45p-2:00p CST
Keynote Address
2:00p–3:00p Central Standard Time
Markus Rathey, Yale University, Chair
Aretha’s Amazing Grace:
Symbol of African American Religious and Cultural Identity
Dr. Mellonee Burnim, Indiana University, professor emirita
Co-sponsored by the Trinity Christian College music department
Closing Session
3:00p–3:15p Central Standard Time
Brief SCSM updates, including announcement of Graduate Student Paper Prize