Sacred Song in America

Sacred Song in America
Title Sacred Song in America PDF eBook
Author Stephen A. Marini
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 418
Release 2003
Genre History
ISBN 9780252028007

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In Sacred Song in America, Stephen A. Marini explores the full range of American sacred music and demonstrates how an understanding of the meanings and functions of this musical expression can contribute to a greater understanding of religious culture.Marini examines the role of sacred song across the United States, from the musical traditions of Native Americans and the Hispanic peoples of the Southwest, to the Sacred Harp singers of the rural South and the Jewish music revival to the music of the Mormon, Catholic, and Black churches. Including chapters on New Age and Neo-Pagan music, gospel music, and hymnals as well as interviews with iconic composers of religious music, Sacred Song in America pursues a historical, musicological, and theoretical inquiry into the complex roles of ritual music in the public religious culture of contemporary America.

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Title The Makers of the Sacred Harp PDF eBook
Author David Warren Steel
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 354
Release 2010
Genre Music
ISBN 0252077601

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This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition. David Waren Stel is an associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. Richard H. Hulan is an independent scholar of American folk hymnody.

Christian Sacred Music in the Americas

Christian Sacred Music in the Americas
Title Christian Sacred Music in the Americas PDF eBook
Author Andrew Shenton
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 373
Release 2021-02-17
Genre Music
ISBN 1538148749

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Christian Sacred Music in the Americas explores the richness of Christian musical traditions and reflects the distinctive critical perspectives of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music. This volume, edited by Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko, is a follow-up to SCSM’s Exploring Christian Song and offers a cross-section of the most current and outstanding scholarship from an international array of writers. The essays survey a broad geographical area and demonstrate the enormous diversity of music-making and scholarship within that area. Contributors utilize interdisciplinary methodologies including media studies, cultural studies, theological studies, and different analytical and ethnographical approaches to music. While there are some studies that focus on a single country, musical figure, or region, this is the first collection to represent the vast range of sacred music in the Americas and the different approaches to studying them in context.

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch
Title Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch PDF eBook
Author Daniel Jay Grimminger
Publisher University Rochester Press
Pages 238
Release 2012
Genre History
ISBN 1580463835

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Sheds light on the process of cultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches. The Pennsylvania Dutch comprised the largest single ethnic group in the early American Republic of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet like other ethnic minorities in early America, they struggled to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity in everything that they did. Eventually their German Lutheran and Reformed customs and folkways gave way to Anglo-American pressure. The tune and chorale books printed for use in Pennsylvania Dutch churches document this gradual process of Americanization, including notable moments of resistance to change. Daniel Grimminger's Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch is the only in-depth study of the shifting identity of the Pennsylvania Dutch as manifested in their music. Through a closer examination of music sources, folk art, and historical contexts, this interdisciplinary study sheds light on the process of cultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches. Grimminger's book also provides a model with which to view all ethnic enclaves, in America and elsewhere, andthe ways in which loyalties can shift as a group becomes part of a larger cultural fabric. Daniel Grimminger holds a doctorate in sacred music and choral conducting, as well as a PhD in musicology. He also holds a masterof theological studies degree and is a clergyman in the North American Lutheran Church. Grimminger teaches at Kent State University and is the pastor at Faith Lutheran Church in Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio.

How Sweet the Sound

How Sweet the Sound
Title How Sweet the Sound PDF eBook
Author David Ware Stowe
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 366
Release 2004
Genre Music
ISBN 9780674012905

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Stowe traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters have produced a rich harvest of song and faith.

If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me

If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me
Title If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me PDF eBook
Author Bernice Johnson Reagon
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 172
Release 2001-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9780803289833

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Examines different genres of African American sacred music of the twentieth century, emphasizing the role migration of blacks in the United States played in nurturing and spreading the evolution of gospel music.

The Sacred Harp

The Sacred Harp
Title The Sacred Harp PDF eBook
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Release 1968
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