Research: J.W. West

J. W. West
Research

My research is on hymnody and other aspects of liturgy and worship, with particular interest in 19th Anglican hymnody and 21st century congregational hymn singing.

Publications:

• “Neale’s Hymnal Noted and its Impact on Twentieth-Century American Hymnody,” The Hymn, 69, 3 (Summer 2018): 14-24.
• “Magnify the Lord,” book review, The Hymn, 71, 1 (Winter 2020): 41.
• “Through Death to Life: Selecting Ecumenical Hymns for a Lutheran Funeral,” Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 29, 2 (April 2020), 19-27.
• “Online Worship in Waco During a Season of Pandemic,” Anglican and Episcopal History 89, 3 (Sept. 2020), 305-309. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26973696
• “Timothy Day, I Saw Eternity the Other Night: King’s College, Cambridge, and an English Singing Style,” book review, Journal of Anglican Studies 19, 2 (November 2021), 243-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1740355320000017
• “Dale Adelmann, The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship, 1839–62,” book review, Journal of Anglican Studies 21, 1 (May 2023), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740355321000486
• “Dan Alger, Word and Sacrament: Ancient Traditions for Modern Church Planting,” book review, Cranmer Theological Journal 1, 1 (January 2024), 58-59. https://doi.org/10.62221/ctj.2024.107

Other Publications:

• J. W. West, “Forming Laity via Online Daily Offices,” Forward in Christ 12, 6 (May 2020): 16-17.
• J. W. West, “How Cambridge and John Mason Neale Continued the Oxford Movement,” Forward in Christ 11, 4 (October 2018): 18-20, URL: http://bit.ly/FIC-Neale-2018

Also, contributor to North American Anglican.

Presentations:

• J. W. West, “The Impact of Neale’s Hymnal Noted on 20th Century American Hymnody,” Society for Christian Scholarship in Music 2017 Annual Meeting, February 10, 2017.
• J. W. West, “High Church Singing in Baptistland: Localization of Anglican Congregational Singing in Texas,” Society for Christian Scholarship in Music 2019 Annual Meeting, February 15, 2019.
• J. W. West, “The Influence of the Lutheran Theology of Death Upon American Lutheran Funeral Hymns,” Society for Christian Scholarship in Music 2020 Annual Meeting, February 7, 2020.
• J. W. West, “Seeking an Anglican Theology of Music,” Society for Christian Scholarship in Music 2021 Annual Meeting, February 26, 2021.

My Google Scholar page is at here and my Academia.edu page here. The Anglican Music blog is at AnglicanMusic.blogspot.com.