@amherst.eduSelect Publications
Books
Under contract Music and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.
2016 (co-edited with Philip V. Bohlman) Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual. New York: Oxford University Press. Amazon OUP
2015 Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia. New York: Oxford University Press. Amazon OUP
Articles
2009 “Right Singing in Estonian Orthodox Christianity: A Study of Music, Theology, and Religious Ideology.” Ethnomusicology 53(1): 32-57.
2008 “Late- and Post-Soviet Music Scholarship and the Tenacious Ecumenicity of Christian Musics in Estonia.” Journal of Baltic Studies 39(3): 239-262.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
2016 (with Philip V. Bohlman) “Resounding Transcendence – An Introduction.” Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual. Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip V. Bohlman, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1-25.
2016 “Arvo Pärt and the Idea of a Christian Europe: The Musical Effects and Affects of Post-Ideological Religion.” Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual. Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip V. Bohlman, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 214-232.
2016 “Congregational Singing, Orthodox Christianity, and the Making of Ecumenicity.” The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities. Suzel Reily and Jonathan Dueck, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 649-674.
2012 “Perspectives on Arvo Pärt after 1980.” The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt. Andrew Shenton, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 29-48.
2012 “Music, Sound, and Religion.” The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction. Second edition. Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, and Richard Middleton, eds. New York: Routledge, 299-307.
2010 “The Acoustics and Geopolitics of Orthodox Practices in the Estonian-Russian Border Region.” Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective. Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 101-127.
2009 “Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia.” Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union. Mathijs Pelkmans, ed. Oxford: Berghahn, 85-106.
Invited Contributions and Reviews
2010 “Has Critical Musicology Aged Well?” Radical Musicology 5, http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk.
2009 Review of Bak, Kirsten Sass and Svend Nielsen, eds. “Spiritual Folk Singing: Nordic and Baltic Protestant Traditions.” Copenhagen: Kragen, 2006. Lied und populäre Kultur/Song and Popular Culture: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs 54: 443-444.
2009 Review of “The Singing Revolution.” Ethnomusicology 53(1): 179-181.
2006 “Inculturation: Genealogies, Meanings, and Musical Dynamics.” Yale Institute of Sacred Music Colloquium: Music, Worship, Arts 3: 1-6.
2006 Review of Ramnarine, Tina. “Ilmatar’s Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(3): 692-694.
2006 Review of “Viryavakay: Oh Mother, protectress of the forest. Songs and Melodies of the Mordva.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 38: 166-167.
2006 Review of “Sacred Steel Instrumentals.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 38: 156-157.
2002 Review of Vasks, Peteris. “‘Drei Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier’; ‘Moments musicaux’; ‘Pieskārieni’; ‘Vasaras dziedājumi’; and Others.” Notes 58(4): 915-920.
2001 Review of Pärt, Arvo. “‘Solfeggio per coro’; ‘Cantate Domino canticum novum’;‘Missa syllabica’; ‘Sarah Was Ninety Years Old’; and Others.” Notes 57(4): 987-993.
Recordings and Other Publications
2010/2011 “Right Singing: The Orthodox Liturgical Tradition – An Ethnomusicological Perspective.” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 26/27: 25-38.
2009 “‘Every Bird Has Its Own Song’: Congregational Singing and the Making of Estonian Orthodoxy, 1840s-1930s.” Composing and Chanting in the Orthodox Church (Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Joensuu, Finland 4-10 June 2007). Ivan Moody and Maria Takala-Roszczenko, eds. Joensuu, Finland: International Society for Orthodox Church Music and University of Joensuu, 303-336.
2004 (reissued 2006) Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kiriku Laule—Hymns of the Orthodox Church of Estonia. Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kirik.