Acknowledgments

Introduction - The Quest to Understand Diverse Musical Experiences

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene

Chapter 2: Music, Attachment, Ethics and Community

Chapter 3: Bridging Worlds Through Common Modes of Being in Music

Chapter 4: Boundaries - Communal and Private, Spiritual and Secular

Chapter 5: At the Edges - Value Transfer, Judgments, Discontent

Chapter 6: Alternative Musical Spaces

Conclusion

Appendix A: Morning Service Repertoire List - January 2012

Appendix B: Worship Team Agreement 2013/14

Bibliography

Index

Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals' musical lives away from a Contemporary Worship Music environment and their diverse experiences of music within it, presenting important insights into the complex and sometimes contradictory relationships between congregants' musical lives within and outside of religious worship.