“The Musics of Indigenous Christians in North America” Right Rev. Mark MacDonald We are delighted and honored to have the Right Rev. Mark MacDonald, the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Bishop, as our keynote speaker for SCSM Toronto 2019. Bishop MacDonald was appointed to this position in 2007, after serving as bishop …
The Society for Christian Scholarship in Music is now seeking proposals for its upcoming annual meeting, which will take place February 14–16, 2019 at St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto. We invite submissions representing a variety of approaches and perspectives, including history, ethnomusicology, theory and analysis, philosophy and theology, liturgy, and critical theory. Individual …
At this past February’s annual meeting, the 2018 Graduate Student Prize was awarded to Andrew Janzen (University of Toronto) for his paper, “The Good Road: Indigenous Christian Songs, Senses and Place of Identity.” In his presentation, Janzen examined how Indigenous Christian songs — including Kiowa, Cheyenne, Crow, and Plateau hymns — mediated relationships between the local and the global by …