摘要
The article addresses various musical manifestations associated with Christianity and church music in the Global Age.The review summarizes three different case studies conducted by the author in Israel and Western Canada over the past two decades.These studies,viewed in the article through various lenses and considered as three different sociocultural narratives,tell the reader about how music,consciously or unconsciously,defines the contours of the cultural and religious identity of the groups whose members are natives or resettled residents of the Holy Land,Old and New Worlds,and China.An updated analysis of ethnographic data points to local cultures as the true indicators of global change.The dialogue between religions by means of musical composition is given as an example of the philosophical and conceptual milestone of the Global Age.A review of the problems accompanying the work of a modern ethnographer completes the range of topics.
