Andrew Mall 6/9/21 Andrew Mall 6/9/21

Review of Anthology of Emo (2 vols.) and Washed Up Emo (podcast)

Punk & Post-Punk (2021). In this review of Tom Mullen's Anthology of Emo (2 vols.) and Washed Up Emo (podcast), I explain how Mullen has contributed to a long trajectory of emo’s and reputational recovery. He is key to emo nostalgia in the 2010s and its resurgence and flourishing into the 2020s.

Andrew Mall 6/4/21 Andrew Mall 6/4/21

“Beer & Hymns” and Community: Religious Identity and Participatory Sing-alongs

Yale Journal of Music and Religion (2021). As a series of loosely-organized events, “Beer & Hymns” started at the Greenbelt Festival in England in 2006 and migrated to the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina in 2012. Local Beer & Hymns gatherings meet at bars, breweries, clubs, and pubs across the U.K., the U.S., and around the world. In this article, I analyze the sonic and social fabric of Beer & Hymns as a participatory space that promotes community, contextualized against white U.S. evangelicalism’s contested relationship with the secular.

Andrew Mall 5/26/21 Andrew Mall 5/26/21

“God told me to give my records away”: Keith Green and the Ethics of Commerce in the 1970s U.S. Christian Music Industry

SAM conference presentation (2021). “God just told me to start my own label and give my records away.” So spoke Christian songwriter Keith Green to Billy Ray Hearn, his record label’s founder and owner, in 1979. Green was convicted that his music could not minister to those who most needed to hear God’s message unless it was freely available. In this paper, I examine Green’s career to illustrate how one artist navigated the delicate balance of ethical and commercial imperatives. I argue that ethical objectives can be just as important as aesthetic or commercial ones, particularly in their ability to establish markets’ boundaries.

Andrew Mall 5/17/21 Andrew Mall 5/17/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 14

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 14, “Ecclesioscapes: interpreting Gatherings around Christian Music in and outside the Church through the Dutch Case of the ‘Sing Along Matthäuspassion,’ ” by Mirella Klomp.

Andrew Mall 5/14/21 Andrew Mall 5/14/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 13

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 13, “Searching for a Metaphor: What Is the role of the Shaliach/Shalichat Tzibur (Leader of Prayer)?” by Jeffrey A. Summit.

Andrew Mall 5/12/21 Andrew Mall 5/12/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 12

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 11, “Congregational Singing and Practices of Gender in Christian Worship: Exploring Intersections,” by Teresa Berger.

Andrew Mall 5/10/21 Andrew Mall 5/10/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 11

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 11, “Studying Byzantine Ukrainian Congregational Music in Canada: Considering Community and Diaspora,” by Marcia Ostashewski.

Andrew Mall 5/6/21 Andrew Mall 5/6/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 10

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 10, “Researching Black Congregational Music from a Migratory Point of View: Methods, Challenges, and Strategies,” by Melvin L. Butler.

Andrew Mall 4/30/21 Andrew Mall 4/30/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 9

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 9, “ ‘We Just Don’t Have It’: Addressing Whiteness in Congregational Voicing,” by Marissa Glynias Moore.

Andrew Mall 4/29/21 Andrew Mall 4/29/21

“Lift Each Other Up”: Punk, Politics, and Secularization at Christian Festivals

IASPM-US conference presentation (2021). When the members of Flatfoot 56, a Celtic punk band from Chicago, speak of “brotherhood” at AudioFeed, a Christian music festival, they refer to congregational cohesion; at a secular punk venue, however, scene unity is just as likely an interpretation. Whereas Christian punks sacralize secular places, such as the bars and nightclubs where they often perform, this paper suggests that bands like Flatfoot 56 might be thought to secularize sacred places (i.e., Christian festivals) by decentering U.S. evangelicalism’s most controversial public positions. Through an ethnographic analysis of Flatfoot 56 performances, considering what is sung/spoken aloud and what is not, this paper argues for a nuanced, mediating perspective that recognizes an ambivalence about identity politics among many evangelical subculturalists moving between secular and sacred spaces.

Andrew Mall 4/28/21 Andrew Mall 4/28/21

Studying Congregational Music: Chapter 8

Studying Congregational Music, Routledge (2021). Chapter 8, “Congregation and Chorality: Fluidity and Distinction in the Voicing of Religious Community,” by Jeffers Engelhardt.

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.