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Author:   Dulcie A. Dixon McKenzie ,  Pauline E. Muir ,  Monique M. Ingalls (Baylor University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032195643

ISBN 10:   1032195649
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Rivers of Babylon: Contextualizing Black British Gospel Music Pauline Muir, Dulcie Dixon McKenzie, and Monique M. Ingalls 1 Look Where God has Brought Us! Remembering the Religious Foundations of Black British Gospel Music Dulcie Dixon McKenzie 2 ‘Gifts and Talents’: Sacred and secular musical performance at a suburban British Pentecostal church Natalie Hyacinth 3 Just Like Church, Not Like Church, or Better Than Church? Community Gospel Choirs as Lived Religion and Convivial Spiritual Practice in the Contemporary United Kingdom Monique M. Ingalls 4 Black British Gospel Music: A Perspective from A Reluctant Choir Director Geraldine Latty Luce 5 Black British Gospel-Pop Crossover: ‘Gospel Codes’ in the Music of Stormzy and Mica Paris Matthew Williams 6 The ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ interplay within gospel grime performance Samson Tosin Onafuye 7 Don’t shoot the Messi(nJ)ah: Charting the growth of the Gospel in Great British Grime music Monique Charles 8 The Jamaican Bible Remix: A theomusicological praxis for bridging the gap between Black Liberation Theology and Contemporary Gospel Music in Britain Robert Beckford 9 Black British Gospel Music and the Question of Belief (in God) Alexander Douglas 10 Decolonising Congregational Music Pauline Muir 11 Black British Gospel Music Past, Present, and Future: Final Reflections from the Editors Dulcie Dixon McKenzie, Pauline Muir, and Monique M. Ingalls Afterword: We Need Black Power, Lord! Reflections on Black British Gospel Music William Ackah

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Dulcie Dixon McKenzie is the Director of the Centre for Black Theology at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK. She achieved her PhD at the University of Birmingham and has published in the area of Black British gospel music and church history. She is a multiple award-winning pioneer of Black British gospel music Radio, including a lifetime achievement award. Pauline Muir is a lecturer in Arts Management at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Awarded a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London interrogating congregation music within UK Black majority Churches, her research interests are in the intricate interplay between ‘race’, identity, congregational music and the Black British Gospel industry. Monique M. Ingalls is Associate Professor of Music and Church Music Graduate Program Director at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA. She is the author and editor of several books on congregational music-making and serves as series editor of Routledge’s Congregational Music Studies Book Series.

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