Music in American Religious Experience

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Philip V. Bohlman, Edith Blumhofer, Maria Chow
Oxford University Press, 8 dic 2005 - 368 pagine
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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Music in American Religious Experience
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Experience and Identity
21
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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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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