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Music in American religious experience

Philip V. Bohlman (Editor), Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer (Editor), Maria M. Chow (Editor)
Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience. Music and music-making are crucial to the maintenance of the distinctive belief systems that account for the insistent presence of multiculturalism in American denominationalism. The sacred musics of America at once symbolize the unifying factors of worship shaping the historical landscape and give voice to the diversity that distinguishes the religious experiences of that landscape as American. For students and scholars in American music and religious studies, as well as for church musicians, this book is the first to study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The sixteen essayists contributing to this book address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history. Sacred music is considered in the broadest aesthetic sense, stretching from more traditional studies of hymnody and worship to new forms of musical expression, such as ritual in nonsectarian religious movements. Musical experience intersects with religious experience, posing challenging questions about the ways in which Americans, historical communities and new immigrants, and racial and ethnic groups, construct their sense of self. This book features an interdisciplinary approach that includes scholars in both musical and religious studies; a broad range of methodologies; historical breadth extending beyond denominational and church studies, and beyond Judeo-Christian traditions; and a comparative study of traditional religious communities and of emerging groups representing multiethnic America
Print Book, English, 2006
Oxford University Press, New York, 2006
Congresses
viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780195173031, 9780195173048, 0195173031, 019517304X
61151656
Foreword, Martin E. MartyContributorsIntroduction: Music in American Religious Experience, Philip V. BohlmanPart I: Experience and Identity1: Regula Burckhardt Qureshi: When Women Recite: "Music" and the Islamic Immigrant Experience2: Jon Michael Spencer: African American Religious Music from a Theomusicological Perspective3: Anne Morrison Spinney: Medeolinuwok, Music, and Missionaries in Maine4: Margarita Mazo: Singing as an Experience of American-Russian MolokansPart II: Liturgy, Hymnody, and Song5: Stephen A. Marini: Hymnody and History: Early American Evangelical Hymns as Sacred Music6: Paul Westermeyer: The Evolution of the Music of German American Protestants in Their Hymnody: A Case Study from an American Perspective7: Otto Holzapfel: Singing from the Right Songbook: Ethnic Identity and Language Transformation in German American Hymnals8: Judith Gray: "When in Our Music God Is Glorified:" Singing and Singing about Singing in a Congregational ChurchPart III: Individuals and the Agency of Faith9: Edith L. Blumhofer: Fanny Crosby and Protestant Hymnody10: Philip V. Bohlman: Prayer on the Panorama: Music and Individualism in American Religious Experience11: Janet Walton: Women's Ritual MusicPart IV: Congregation and Community12: Jeffrey A. Summit: Nusach and Identity: The Contemporary Meaning of Traditional Jewish Prayer Modes13: Maria M. Chow: Reflections on the Musical Diversity of Chinese Churches in the United States14: Jeff Todd Titon: "Tuned Up with the Grace of God:" Music and Experience among Old Regular Baptists15: Don E. Saliers: Aesthetics and Theology in Congregational Song: A Hymnal IntervenesIndex
נושא ישן: Music and society
נושא ישן: Music - United States - 20th century - history and criticism