This Is Not a Fighting Song: The Prophetic Witness of the Indigo Girls
Ebook
It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain. Further, they work outward, convicted that their music and songwriting is an avenue to speak truth to power. All of this serves as theological reflection worked out in public and vocal forms of prophetic denunciation and proclamation. Their songs take on this prophetic tone of denunciation--speaking against oppression, inequality, and injustice. Moreover, their music does not remain complacent in the critique; through their songwriting they participate in prophetic proclamation--envisioning alternative ways of being, contributing to the collective imagination of contexts of equality, peace, and human freedom.
“Music reaches the depths of our souls in ways nothing else can.
This Is Not a Fighting Song explores this truth and leads us
to uncover many layers of meaning in the work of the Indigo Girls.
Through careful research and thoughtful reflection, Holladay takes
a deep dive into the theological and spiritual meaning of their
work. I’ll listen to all kinds of music with completely different
ears because of it.”
—Traci Smith, author of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred
Moments at Home
“In describing her first encounter with an Indigo Girls song,
Meredith Holladay writes that the song and performance ‘struck a
chord’ with her. That’s what good songs do. They evoke something
within us. In this thoughtful, engaging book, Meredith goes on to
explain why. She blends chords of spirituality and creativity,
imagination and prophetic witness, and identity and hope into her
own song that stays with us. What a gift!”
—Rodger Nishioka, senior associate pastor, Village Presbyterian
Church
“Creativity, theological reflection, joy, and deep meaning are
present in Meredith Holladay’s This Is Not a Fighting Song.
As Holladay invites all readers to reflect on the music and meaning
making of the Indigo Girls, so she invites all readers to reflect
on their own process of meaning making in the world. This book is
an encounter with hope.”
—Leah Grundset Davis, author of Believe the Women
- Title: This Is Not a Fighting Song: The Prophetic Witness of the Indigo Girls
- Author: Meredith Holladay
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781532607868, 9781532607875, 9781532607851, 1532607865, 1532607873, 1532607857
- Resource ID: LLS:9781532607868
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-05T20:36:05Z
Meredith Holladay is an educator and ordained minister in the
Kansas City area.