Description: Learning in a Musical Key examines the
multidimensional problem of the relationship between music and
theological education. Lisa Hess argues that, in a delightful and
baffling way, musical learning has the potential to significantly
alter and inform our conception of the nature and process of
theological learning. In exploring this exciting intersection of
musical learning and theological training, Hess asks two probing
questions. First, What does learning from music in a performative
mode require? Classical modes of theological education often
founder on a dichotomy between theologically musical and
educational discourses. It is extremely difficult for many to see
how the perceivedly nonmusical learn from music. Is musicality a
universally human potential? In exploring this question Hess turns
to the music-learning theory of Edwin Gordon, which explores
music's unique mode of teaching/learning, its primarily aural-oral
mode. This challenge leads to the study's second question: How does
a theologian, in the disciplinary sense, integrate a performative
mode into critical discourse? Tracking the critical movements of
this problem, Hess provides an inherited, transformational logic as
a feasible path for integrating a performative mode into
multidimensional learning. This approach emerges as a distinctly
relational, embodied, multidimensional, and non-correlational
performative-mode theology that breaks new ground in the
contemporary theological landscape. As an implicitly trinitarian
method, rooted in the relationality of God, this non-correlational
method offers a practical theological contribution to the
discipline of Christian spirituality, newly claimed here as a
discipline of transformative teaching/learning through the highly
contextualized and self-implicated scholar into relationally formed
communities, and ultimately into the world. Endorsements: ""This
book tackles a vitally important field-the relation between music
and theological education. Hess pushes us to think hard about what
theology in a 'performative' mode might look like. An adventurous
and bold book."" --Jeremy Begbie Duke University ""Lisa Hess
challenges us to ponder how music and learning actually work to
transform our lives. This provocative study draws on diverse
sources from history, philosophy, education, and music theory to
construct a promising new approach to doing theology in a
performative mode. What Hess offers us in this symphonic
masterpiece is nothing less than insight, which she identifies as
'music's primary gift.'"" --Arthur Holder Graduate Theological
Union ""Lisa Hess introduces her book with three significant
questions: how do we learn, do theology, and build a unified
community of diverse peoples through music? These questions are
intriguing and urgent in a world where the process of knowing and
the work of theology both demand full participation of all our
human senses. Hess dives deeply into these questions, and she
surfaces with a vibrant picture of music as a living, embodied,
relational set of practices that simultaneously express, question,
and illumine theology. Her presentation is richly textured and
integrative, drawing deeply on the fields of history,
ethnomusicology, education, music, spirituality, and aesthetics.
What lingers after reading Hess's book is a bounty of knowledge
composed into the performative mode of music, beckoning readers
back into the pages to sing and play with the harmonies until we
truly understand the new possibilities that she presents."" --Mary
Elizabeth Moore Boston University ""Christian theology, like
musicology, uses words to describe realities and experiences that
resist explanation. Lisa Hess explores how theologians could better
attend to the performative, embodied nature of spirituality in all
its various forms. This book is a helpful reminder of how elusive
the subject of theology is, and points readers to a variety of
voices and questions that are often neglected in th
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