Music in American Religious Experience

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Philip 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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Contributors
Music and Islamic Immigrant
African American Religious Music from
Medeolinuwok Music and Missionaries in Maine
Singing as Experience among Russian American
Early American Evangelical
The Evolution of the Music of German American
Ethnic Identity
Singing
Fanny Crosby and Protestant Hymnody
Music and Individualism
Womens Ritual Music
The Contemporary Meaning
Reflections on the Musical Diversity of Chinese
Music
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Philip V. Bohlman teaches at the University of Chicago, where he is Mary Werkman Professor of the Humanities and of Music, Chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies, and Artistic Director of the cabaret ensemble, New Budapest Orpheum Society. Edith L. Blumhofer is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College (Illinois). Maria M. Chow is a native of Hong Kong, and her Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago) is a study of the modern discourse on music and its impact on the Chinese national self-identity in the first half of the twentieth century.

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