About me
Nathan Myrick is an ethnomusicologist and theological ethicist. He is fascinated by the ways that musical activity forms and frames human relationships, and studies how music facilitates human flourishing in religious and quasi-religious communities. He is the author of Music for Others: Care, Justice, and Relational Ethics in Christian Music (Oxford University Press), the co-editor of Ethics and Christian Musicking (Routledge) and co-editor of a Festschrift in honor of David W. Music, The Gift of Music: Essays on Church Music and Hymnology (MorningStar). He has also authored “Music and Human Flourishing in Christian Communities” for The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing, as well as “Ethics and Justice” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Christian Theology.
Other work has been published in The Yale Journal of Music and Religion, Liturgy, The Hymn, Bloomsbury Academic, UMC Discipleship, and HM Magazine, among others. He is currently writing a book about the failure of authenticity as a moral guide, entitled Beat Me Out of Me, and is the co-Principle Investigator of the post-Christian hardcore community that revolves around Furnace Fest, in Birmingham, Alabama.
