Music in American Religious ExperiencePhilip V. Bohlman, Edith Blumhofer, Maria Chow Oxford University Press, 8. dets 2005 - 368 pages Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience and has been of fundamental importance in the development of American identity and psyche. The essays in this long-awaited volume explore the diverse ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States and address the fullness of music's presence in American religious history. Timely, challenging, and stimulating, this collection will appeal to students and scholars of American history, American studies, religious studies, theology, musicology, and ethnomusicology, as well as to practicing sacred musicians. |
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... texts whose sacred authority is unassailable . The authenticity of song texts , however , is more often than not illusory , as the essays in part 2 of this book illustrate . Just as prayer books and hymnbooks anchor tradition in the ...
... texts whose sacred authority is unassailable . The authenticity of song texts , however , is more often than not illusory , as the essays in part 2 of this book illustrate . Just as prayer books and hymnbooks anchor tradition in the ...
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... metaphors in Congregational hymnody is both textual and musical , again a case of dif ferent voices mutually constitutive of communitarianism in American life . The essays in part 3 turn attention from the texts 14 INTRODUCTION.
... metaphors in Congregational hymnody is both textual and musical , again a case of dif ferent voices mutually constitutive of communitarianism in American life . The essays in part 3 turn attention from the texts 14 INTRODUCTION.
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... texts of American religious music to those , who give voice to those texts , individuals and the agency of faith . In her study of Fanny Crosby , Edith Blumhofer ponders just what it was that made Crosby the most celebrated author of hymn ...
... texts of American religious music to those , who give voice to those texts , individuals and the agency of faith . In her study of Fanny Crosby , Edith Blumhofer ponders just what it was that made Crosby the most celebrated author of hymn ...
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... texts mediate between a Romanian religious experience and an American religious experience , although , as we have seen already , the Romanian religious experience of Pentecostalism takes as its model the American religious experience ...
... texts mediate between a Romanian religious experience and an American religious experience , although , as we have seen already , the Romanian religious experience of Pentecostalism takes as its model the American religious experience ...
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Contents
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When Women Recite Music and Islamic Immigrant Experience | 23 |
African American Religious Music from a Theomusicological Perspective | 43 |
Medeolinuwok Music and Missionaries in Maine | 57 |
Singing as Experience among Russian American Molokans | 83 |
Liturgy Hymnody and Song | 121 |
Hymnody and History Early American Evangelical Hymns as Sacred Music | 123 |
Individuals and the Agency of Faith | 213 |
Fanny Crosby and Protestant Hymnody | 215 |
Prayer on the Panorama Music and Individualism in American Religious Experience | 233 |
Womens Ritual Music | 255 |
Congregation and Community | 269 |
Nusach and Identity The Contemporary Meaning of Traditional Jewish Prayer Modes | 271 |
Reflections on the Musical Diversity of Chinese Churches in the United States | 287 |
Tuned Up with the Grace of God Music and Experience among Old Regular Baptists | 311 |
The Evolution of the Music of German American Protestants in Their Hymnody A Case Study from an American Perspective | 155 |
Singing from the Right Songbook Ethnic Identity and Language Transformation in German American Hymnals | 175 |
When in Our Music God Is Glorified Singing and Singing about Singing in a Congregational Church | 195 |
Aesthetics and Theology in Congregational Song A Hymnal Intervenes | 335 |
Index | 345 |
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