Andrew Mall 4/26/21 Andrew Mall 4/26/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 7

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 7, “Political Economy and Capital in Congregational Music Studies: Commodities, Worshipers, and Worship,” by Andrew Mall.

Andrew Mall 4/22/21 Andrew Mall 4/22/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 6

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 6, “Music Theology as the Mouthpiece of Science: Proving It through Congregational Music Studies,” by Bennett Zon.

Andrew Mall 4/16/21 Andrew Mall 4/16/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 5

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 5, “Re-sounding the History of Christian Congregational Music,” by Sarah Eyerly.

Andrew Mall 4/14/21 Andrew Mall 4/14/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 4

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 4, “Ethnography in the Study of Congregational Music,” by Jeff Todd Titon.

Andrew Mall 4/12/21 Andrew Mall 4/12/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 3

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 3, “Mediating Religious Experience? Congregational Music and the Digital Music Interface,” by Anna E. Nekola.

Andrew Mall 4/7/21 Andrew Mall 4/7/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 2

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 2, “Worshipping ‘With Everything’: Musical Analysis and Congregational Worship,” by Joshua Kalin Busman.

Andrew Mall 4/5/21 Andrew Mall 4/5/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 1

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 1, “In Case You Don’t Have a Case: Reflections on Methods for Studying Congregational Song in Liturgical History,” by Lester Ruth.

Andrew Mall 4/2/21 Andrew Mall 4/2/21

Studying Congregational Music: Introduction

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Introduction, “Interdisciplinarity and Epistemic Diversity in Congregational Music Studies,” by Andrew Mall, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Monique M. Ingalls.

Andrew Mall 3/23/21 Andrew Mall 3/23/21

Music Business, Ethics, and Christian Festivals: Progressive Christianity at Wild Goose Festival

Ethics and Christian Musicking, Routledge (2021). In this chapter, I consider the ways in which the business of music complicates the ethics and objectives of Christian music. I address some of the effects of yoking Christian music to the for-profit imperatives of entertainment conglomerates, but I quickly turn my attention to Christian festivals, which are unique places in which competing ethics find an equilibrium, albeit one that is always temporary and often uneasy.

Andrew Mall 3/16/21 Andrew Mall 3/16/21

“God Is My Girlfriend”: Christian Rock and Niche Genres with Andrew Mall

Money 4 Nothing podcast (2021). Christian music and especially Christian rock is a world of its own, a self-contained universe that mirrors the trends and styles of the mainstream. But how does it work? And what can it tell us about the interactions between audiences and industries that structure popular music? We talk to Andrew Mall, the author of God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music, to explore everything from the Jesus People to Christian metalcore, while discussing how the complex relationship between sacred and secular pop can help us understand the ethics, aesthetics, and boundaries that define musical genre.

Jenna Reed 2/16/21 Jenna Reed 2/16/21

Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives

Routledge, Congregational Music Studies Series (2021)

Andrew Mall 2/3/21 Andrew Mall 2/3/21

Professor Andrew Mall’s Recent Work in Popular Music Studies

Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media + Design (2021). Recently, Prof. Mall’s work engaging other scholars in popular music studies in an open conversation to address several challenges that they have encountered in their teaching, researching, and writing has resulted in three separate but related initiatives, including a symposium, a co-authored report in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and a co-edited forum in the journal Twentieth-Century Music.

Andrew Mall 1/28/21 Andrew Mall 1/28/21

Looking Towards the Future: Popular Music Studies and Music Scholarship

Twentieth-Century Music (2021). In this forum, we have collected articles from participants in a recent symposium on the future of popular music studies to reflect more deeply on the challenges we all face in in an increasingly diverse and divided world -- challenges of teaching, studying, comprehending, and embodying pop music in all its richness. The field must reckon with these challenges if it is to remain relevant, and in doing so (we argue) it perhaps models a way forward for music scholarship as a whole.

Andrew Mall 1/20/21 Andrew Mall 1/20/21

Autographed Bookplates for God Rock, Inc.

Promoting a new book during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic means no in-person events, and thus no easy way for me to autograph your copy of God Rock, Inc. But I found a middle ground: autographed, self-adhesive bookplates! If you have already purchased God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music and would like an autographed bookplate, free of charge, just contact me and let me know!

Andrew Mall 12/10/20 Andrew Mall 12/10/20

Selling Out or Buying In? CCM Magazine and Anxieties over Commercial Priorities in Christian Music, 1980s–1990s

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (2020). In 1992, EMI acquired Sparrow Records. At that time, EMI was one of the “Big Six” (secular) major record labels; Sparrow was the largest and most successful label in the Christian record industry. As in other sectors of the music and entertainment industries, reactions to corporate consolidations are mixed. CCM magazine and its sister publications, for decades the primary sources of information about and for the Christian market, provide a unique opportunity to observe and analyze these tensions leading up to these mergers and acquisitions.

Andrew Mall 11/24/20 Andrew Mall 11/24/20

Review of Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America, by Ari Y. Kelman

Yale Journal of Music and Religion (2020). In this review of Ari Y. Kelman's Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America (NYU Press, 2018), I describe the strengths and challenges of examining the cultural production of worship music thematically, as Kelman has chosen to focus on songwriting, worship leading, and the music industry in sequence.

Jenna Reed 11/6/20 Jenna Reed 11/6/20

A soundtrack to God Rock, Inc.

Listen to the curated playlists of God Rock, Inc. I have created separate Spotify playlists for each individual chapter of the book; individual songs are flagged within the book itself with a little LP icon.

Jenna Reed 11/6/20 Jenna Reed 11/6/20

God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music

University of California Press (2021)

Andrew Mall 10/16/20 Andrew Mall 10/16/20

Catching Up with CAMD’s Andrew Mall: Creativity During the Pandemic, the Importance of Being Nimble, and What He’s Working on Next

Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media + Design (2020). We recently caught up with Professor Mall to talk about how the creative industries have shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic, how Northeastern teaches students to embrace the flexibility that is necessary to thrive in these changing conditions, and what he is currently working on. Read more below.

Andrew Mall 9/6/20 Andrew Mall 9/6/20

Conference Report: “The Future of Pop: Big Questions Facing Popular Music Studies in the 21st Century,” AMS Pre-Conference Symposium

Journal of Popular Music Studies (2020). In this article, we report on the two-day event, “The Future of Pop: Big Questions Facing Popular Music Studies in the 21st Century,” at Northeastern University in October 2019. The event was sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS-PMSG), Northeastern University, and Amherst College as a pre-conference symposium tied to the AMS’s annual meeting in Boston.