REBIRTH: Singing Death, Singing Life

Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Silver Sponsor

This sectional will take the form of a reflexive group learning experience for and about Christian congregational music scholar-practitioners (also identified as teacher-scholars), defined as those with professional training and experience in both academic scholarship and church music practice. The leaders of the session, who are working on a larger research project that focuses on what church musicians can learn from the experience of scholar-practitioners, will share select findings of their work as a prompt for dialogue with sectional participants who are either scholar-practitioners themselves or are interested in contributions from this intersection. This dialogic learning session will also be oriented to the theme of the conference, focusing on notions of rebirth, death and life from the scholar-practitioner perspective.