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Brian

Summarized
I want to see
 
more people making more things for more good purposes
more people asking more people to make more things for more good purposes
more lasting traditions of community-focused healing creativity
 
in my wake
One sentence summary of my job: I help communities use their arts to solve their problems.
 
My core life project is promoting arts-energized, communication-focused appreciative inquiry for better futures. My current spheres of engagement are expressive arts therapies (individual, small group); Christian mission (cross-cultural spread of Christian faith); and Community development (thriving, shalom, health).
 
I create in genres like song (pop, blues, soul); spoken word; Schräg; writing (cultural observation story, scholarship, How-to Guides); anchor beads; musical romance (jazz standards, comedy); Powerpoint; lecture
 
My main contributions to human thought        
  • An explanation of the kinds of interaction between novel and known elements of creative action that result in thriving traditions – the infrastructure dance. DjeDje; Sanneh; Titon & Pettan.
  • A scalable way to engage with any community that results in people drawing on their arts to improve their lives. Creating Local Arts Together (CLAT), Make Arts for Life. Krabill.
  • Narrative intersubjective ethnography: PhD; DjeDje
  • Research and application seamlessly integrated into one discipline: ethnoarts.
  • Nuanced case for reengagement with representatives of longer traditions. Titon & Pettan.
 
My current community foci are people affected by Huntington's Disease; ethnolinguistic minorities; missionaries, missional Christians; ethnomusicologists; marriages and families; unreconciled races
 
My life values include rigorous thought; humor, wit; Big Ideas in Practice; protect, nurture the small, weak; persistence – aspire to long obediences in the same direction; unwavering, flexible, beautiful orthodoxy; purposeful creativity; risk when right; forthrightness; loyalty, assume goodwill in others; save some for later (Heaven Now Index)
 
My theological foci, always practical, include Heaven, kingdom of Heaven; Revelation 5 | 21; creation; imagination; incarnation, kenosis; reconciliation; worship; spiritual formation; doubt
 
Some relevant literature
  • Schrag, Brian. 2016. “Music in the Newer Churches.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity, edited by Lamin Sanneh and Michael McClymond, 359-367. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Schrag, Brian. 2015. "Motivations and Methods for Encouraging Artists in Longer Traditions." In Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, edited by Jeff Todd Titon and Svanibor Pettan, 317-347. Oxford University Press.
  • Schrag, Brian. 2013. “How Artists Create Enduring Traditions.” In Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs, Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa. A Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, edited by Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula, 415–444. Richmond, CA: MRI Press.
  • Krabill, James R., managing ed.; Frank Fortunato, Robin Harris, and Brian Schrag, eds. 2013. Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook. Pasadena: William Carey Library.
  • Schrag, Brian. In Krabill 2013: "Ethnoartistic Cocreation in the Kingdom of God," pp 49-56; "The Love Motive," pp 192-193; "Worship in My Language," pp 355-356; "Determining Your Role as an Arts Advocate and Facilitator," pp 364-366; "Planning an Arts Showcase Event," pp 481-484; "Evaluating and Improving Local Arts," pp 485-491.
  • Schrag, Brian. 2013. Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals. General editor, James R. Krabill. Pasadena: William Carey Library.
  • Schrag, Brian. 2005. How Bamiléké Music-Makers Create Culture in Cameroon. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles.



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    • Brian's Story >
      • Brian in Plain Prose
      • 1Haiku
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      • 7FranceIdeologues
      • 8LosAngelesSchräg
      • 9Hagiography
      • 10HeavenSpokenWord
      • Brian Summarized
      • Narrative CV
  • Songs
    • Brian's Songs >
      • Always Toward Heaven
      • Home in Your Eyes
      • Glimpse
      • Further Up
      • Eau de
      • The End
      • Waiting for Me
      • To Be Free
      • What Does It Matter?
      • All I Do Is For You
      • Elwyn & Marilyn
      • Liminal Lullabye
      • Lydia's Christmas Song
      • We're Not Alone
      • Your Beauty's In Christ
      • Our Garden
      • Melinda Meloo
      • Austin Schlemaustin
      • Lydia
      • Jacob Brian
      • Psaume 139
      • Put It In His Hands
      • This Day
      • Leaves
      • It's Not Me
      • HD Blues
      • A Ring and an Island
      • Always Toward Heaven
      • Perfect
    • Brian Singing Others' Songs
    • Lynelle's Eternal Dance
    • IziBongo
    • High Jinks
    • Lori Tapia >
      • The Places We've Been
    • GlenOak
    • Stan Hamm
    • Beth Hamm Elliot
    • Vintage Enns, Hamm, Schrag
  • Reflections
    • First Moments in Heaven
    • Spiritual Musings >
      • DoHardThings
      • Bolt
      • Shadows
      • SittingLikeMary
      • Worshipping at Home
      • Ex Creatio
      • A Better Joke
      • In the Storm
      • Brian's Creed
    • HD Journaling
    • Schräg
    • Being the Fool >
      • Vele
      • No where to hide
      • Tuning Wars
    • Academia
    • In Memoriam >
      • MarilynSchrag
      • Elwyn-Schrag >
        • EdnasCoda
        • Thanks Dad
      • EdBartlett
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