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.

The multiplicity of meanings adds to the convolution of Porter's writing style. While academic and philosophical in tone, this book invites other scholars to utilize relationships and other disciplines to explore more wide--reaching and applicable settings..

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 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 AssemblagesConclusion: Relational Ecologies and Rhizomatic Flight Bibliography

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.

The multiplicity of meanings adds to the convolution of Porter's writing style. While academic and philosophical in tone, this book invites other scholars to utilize relationships and other disciplines to explore more wide--reaching and applicable settings..

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 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 AssemblagesConclusion: Relational Ecologies and Rhizomatic Flight Bibliography

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.

The multiplicity of meanings adds to the convolution of Porter's writing style. While academic and philosophical in tone, this book invites other scholars to utilize relationships and other disciplines to explore more wide--reaching and applicable settings..

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 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 AssemblagesConclusion: Relational Ecologies and Rhizomatic Flight Bibliography