[EDITOR’S NOTE: This final instalment of our ten-year anniversary series is published in a new year. We have turned the corner from the past decade and the tumultuous year that was 2020. Looking back and also ahead, current Transpositions editors…
My first opportunity to listen to Mary Vanhoozer’s Bard and Ceilidh in full came during an early morning drive from the Loch Lomond region (north of Glasgow) back to St Andrews on Scotland’s East coast. The landscape of rolling hills…
The year 2018 saw the publication of a book jointly written by David Brown and Gavin Hopps, The Extravagance of Music (London: Palgrave Macmilllan). It would be reasonable to expect that this book would receive a range of reviews, but…
‘Hey Teo—play some of that back’, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis comments on the delicate tune ‘Thisness’. [1] A previously unreleased track until its inclusion in a ’90s compilation, ‘Thisness’ is spacious, mellow, and stop-and-go; Davis’s lines use the space of…
David Brown and Gavin Hopps. The Extravagance of Music. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 352 pp. £64.99 (hardcover) / £59.99 (softcover). C. S. Lewis opens the preface to his little-known collection Rehabilitations and Other Essays by saying, ‘A man…
Karin S. Kendricks and June Boyce-Tillman, eds. Queering Freedom: Music, Identity, and Spirituality. (Anthology with perspectives from over ten countries). Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018, xxi + 374 pp. £44 Eighteen contributors, a wide interdisciplinary engagement, and international institutional bases…
Editor’s Note: ITIA postgraduates and staff enthusiastically welcomed composer-theologian June Boyce-Tillman to our seminar this past Friday (2 November 2018). The Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE is currently Professor of Applied Music at The University of Winchester and an…
Editor’s Note: In our effort to explore the intersection between practical and theoretical expressions of theology and the arts, Transpositions features contemporary artists who infuse their work with theological reflection. In our latest installment, Senior Editor Brett H Speakman interviews singer-songwriter Dave…
RESURRECTION LETTERS, VOLUME I Andrew Peterson Centricity Music, 2018 While the death and resurrection of Jesus has been the subject of intense biblical and historical enquiry throughout the history of Christianity, many theologians have observed the ways that these events…