"Starting as a single congregation in Australia, Hillsong Church now has campuses worldwide, releases worship music that sells millions of albums and its ministers regularly appear in mainstream media. So, how has a single church gained such international prominence? This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which music and marketing have been utilised in the pursuit and production of spiritual experience for members of ..."
"Christian Congregational Music explores the role of congregational music in Christian religious experience, examining how musicians and worshippers perform, identify with and experience belief through musical praxis. Contributors from a broad range of fields, including music studies, theology, literature, and cultural anthropology, present interdisciplinary perspectives on a variety of congregational musical styles - from African Americ ..."
Routledge Studies in Religion Ser. Music, Branding and Consumer Culture in Church : Hillsong in Focus by TomWagner 180 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-429-01887-9, ISBN: 0-429-01887-8
"Hillsong in Focus Tom Wagner. that none of the products (other than the music)
actually have the word 'Hillsong' on them, but instead either promote one of its
bands (e.g., 'United' or 'Young & Free', but not 'Hillsong United') or feature texts or
..."
"Performance, Identity and Experience Monique Ingalls, Carolyn Landau, Tom
Wagner. 1 Herrnhuter Gesangbuch: Christliches ... See Elisabeth Le Guin's
discussion of music and sensuality in the eighteenth century in Boccherini's Body
: An Essay in Carnal Musicology (University of California Press, 2006), p. 184. 6 '
Nearly every aspect of life in ... 13 Pietro Canigiani, Dialogo della serafica
vergine, et sposa di Christo S. Catherina da ..."
"... work I have recently published in relation to the presence of a persona
instantiated by any performance of popular song.20 I ... It could be replaced with
entirely different material with no effect on the song's meaning whatever. ... to
genre (as in the difference between a solo piano accompaniment, an orchestral
backdrop or a full metal line-up). ... I have drawn attention above to Kathryn
Scott's quasi-Celtic sound, and to th ..."
"Importantly, all these advertisements target mainstream Christian music listeners,
and popular worship is often ... Simon Frith claims that music is: the cultural form
best able to cross borders – sounds carry across fences and walls and ... again
and again that music can take a listener from an everyday place or task into a
personal experience of God's presence. ... for Wow Worship Blue, a compilation
album of popular worship song ..."
"Finland, too, has been affected by broader processes of religious change that
have come to mark many contemporary Western societies, particularly the
privatization of religiosity (for example, Kääriäinen, Niemelä and Ketola 2005,
172–4), although membership in the institutional Evangelical Lutheran Church (
which holds special legal status as ... place in recent times (for example, Mikkola,
Niemelä and Petterson 2007; Moberg 2009), ..."
"Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs. ..."
"... the total sum of knowledge on the subject continues to grow. When this
collection was originally conceived, the focus was to be only on coordination
methodologies. Through dialogs with community members, it rapidly became
clear that there were too many other issues intertwined with distributed activity
coordination for that particular slant to tell the right story. However, as a
researcher in coordination I tend to see An Appli ..."
"An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems addresses the complexity of choosing which multi-agent control technologies are appropriate for a given problem domain or a given application. Without such knowledge, when faced with a new application domain, agent developers must rely on past experience and intuition to determine whether a multi-agent system is the right approach, and if so, how to structure the agents, how to decompose th ..."
Pocket Love How Love Fits into Life by Paul Wagner, Tom Larotonda Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2017 by Paul Wagner ISBN-13: 978-0-9961022-7-8, ISBN: 0-9961022-7-2
Hollywood Heyday 75 Movie Legends Discuss Their Golden Age Careers by David A. Fantle, Tom Johnson Paperback, 305 Pages, Published 2018 by Mcfarland ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-6805-5, ISBN: 1-4766-6805-1
Beyond Silence(1st Edition) A quiet vioce Is given expression through Poetry by Tom K. Wagner Paperback, 101 Pages, Published 2009 by The Wagner Partnership ISBN-13: 978-0-9841490-0-1, ISBN: 0-9841490-0-7