Mark Porter studied at University College, Oxford, and King's College, London, before completing his doctorate in ethnomusicology at City University, London, in 2014. Following this, in 2015, he took up a postdoctoral position at Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt. His first monograph, Contemporary Worship Music and Everyday Musical Lives, was published 2017 and he is co-founder and programme chair of the biennial Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives conference. His writing has appeared in the Church Music Quarterly, Ecclesial Practices, Liturgy, the Journal of Contemporary Religion and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, among others. Mark is also an active church musician who has served as worship leader, director of music, organist and choir leader for a variety of churches in the UK and in Germany.

• Acknowledgments
  


• Introduction: Experiencing Multiple Traditions


• Chapter 1: Sounding Back and Forth


• Chapter 2: Singing, Resonance, and Ascetic Struggle


• Chapter 3: Resonance, Bach, and Noisy Congregations


• Chapter 4: Evangelicals, Authenticity, and Sacrament


• Chapter 5: Space, Multiplicity, De/Reconstructing Resonance


• Chapter 6: Prayer Room Live-Streaming and Transnational Resonant Assemblages
  


• Conclusion: Relational Ecologies and Rhizomatic Flight


• Bibliography

Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking explores a diverse range of Christian musical activity through the conceptual lens of resonance, a concept rooted in the physical, vibrational and sonic realm that carries with it an expansive ability to simultaneously describe personal, social and spiritual realities. In this book, Mark Porter proposes that attention to patterns of back-and-forth interaction that exist in and alongside sonic activity can help to understand the dynamics of religious musicking in new ways and, at the same time, can provide a means for bringing diverse traditions into conversation.