BETWEEN LITURGY AND SOUNDSCAPE: REHEARING GOSPEL MUSIC IN NIGERIAN ANGLICAN WORSHIP AS A SITE OF GLOBAL AND INDIGENOUS NEGOTIATION.
This paper explores how gospel music is included into Nigerian Anglican liturgy, emphasizing how local liturgical customs and international musical genres are negotiated. It investigates how gospel idioms alter the Anglican soundscape in Nigeria through observations of church practices, musical repertoire analysis, and interaction with academic discourse on global gospel music. Results show that while gospel music challenges conventional ideas of liturgical order, authenticity, and authority, it also enhances worship through participatory performance, emotional expressivity, and culturally relevant musical adaptations. In order to show how music mediates identity formation, congregational engagement, and the feeling of the sacred, the paper also examines the theological and cultural ramifications of this integration. The study adds to academic discussions on transnational religious practice, cultural hybridization, and the changing role of music in modern Christianity by placing Nigerian Anglican worship within a worldwide framework.
Keywords: Nigerian Anglicanism; Liturgical Negotiation; Global Christianity Soundscape; Musical Hybridity