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Sacred Song in America

Author : Stephen A. Marini
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028007
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Song in America written by Stephen A. Marini and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Christian Sacred Music in the Americas

Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538148749
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Christian Sacred Music in the Americas written by Andrew Shenton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Readings in African American Church Music and Worship

Author : James Abbington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781579997670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Readings in African American Church Music and Worship written by James Abbington and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in African American Church Music and Worship features important articles and essays on music and worship written by some of the most influential voices of the past century, including W. E. B. DuBois, Wendell P. Whalum, V. Michael McKay, Wyatt Tee Walker, J. Wendell Mapson Jr., and others.

How Sweet the Sound

Author : David Ware Stowe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674012905
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book How Sweet the Sound written by David Ware Stowe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Music in American Religious Experience

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195173048
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Music in American Religious Experience written by Philip V. Bohlman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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' contributions to this book address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history.

Traveling Home

Author : Kiri Miller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252032144
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Home written by Kiri Miller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the vibrant musical tradition of Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how song brings together Americans of widely divergent religious and political beliefs. Named after the most popular of the nineteenth-century shape-note tunebooks - which employed an innovative notation system to teach singers to read music - Sacred Harp singing has been part of rural Southern life for over 150 years. In the wake of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, this participatory musical tradition attracted new singers from all over America. All-day "singings" from The Sacred Harp now take place across the country, creating a diverse and far-flung musical community. Blending historical scholarship with wide-ranging fieldwork, Kiri Miller presents an engagingly written study of this important music movement.

Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform

Author : Rev. Anthony Ruff, O.S.B.
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1618330306
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform written by Rev. Anthony Ruff, O.S.B. and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Ruff, O.S.B., has written a brilliant, comprehensive, well-researched book about the treasures of the Church's musical tradition, and about the transformations brought about by liturgical reform. The liturgy constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium stated many revolutionary principles of liturgical reform. Regarding liturgical music, the Council's decrees mandated, on the one hand, the preservation of the inherited treasury of sacred music, and on the other hand, advocated adaptation and expansion of this treasury to meet the changed requirements of the reformed liturgy. In clear, precise language, he retrieves the Council's neglected teachings on the preservation of the inherited music treasury. He clearly shows that this task is not at odds with good pastoral practice, but is rather an integral part of it. The book proposes an alternate hermeneutic for understanding the Second Vatican Council's teachings on worship music.

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

Author : David Warren Steel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077601
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Makers of the Sacred Harp written by David Warren Steel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Parish Book of Chant

Author : Richard Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087902029
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Parish Book of Chant written by Richard Rice and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Protest & Praise

Author : Jon Michael Spencer
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451411645
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Protest & Praise written by Jon Michael Spencer and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a skillful tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from black religion. Songs of protest developed from the spiritual through social-gospel hymnody to culminate in songs of the civil-rights movement and the blues. Born in rebellion, they envision the Kingdom of God.Songs of praise, by contrast, express adoration. Beginning with the "ring-shout," Spencer follows the history of intoned declamation through the tongue song, Holiness-Pentecostal music, and the chanted sermon of the black preacher. Spencer's approach, termed theomusicology, unlocks the wealth of African-American sacred music with a theological key. The result is a fascinating account of a people's struggle with God in history.

Sacred Steel

Author : Robert Stone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252035542
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Steel written by Robert Stone and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Pioneering work on the emergence, development, and current status of a vital but long overlooked tradtition. Enlightening and engaging." --Scott Barretta, musci historian and former editor of Living Blues magazine.

The Sacred Harp

Author : Buell E. Cobb, Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820323713
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Harp written by Buell E. Cobb, Jr. and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On any Sunday afternoon a traveler through the Deep South might chance upon the rich, full sound of Sacred Harp singing. Aided with nothing but their own voices and the traditional shape-note songbook, Sacred Harp singers produce a sound that is unmistakable--clear and full-voiced. Passed down from early settlers in the backwoods of the Southern Uplands, this religious folk tradition hearkens back to a simpler age when Sundays were a time for the Lord and the “singings.” Illustrated with forty-one songs from the original songbook, The Sacred Harp is a comprehensive account of a unique form of folk music. Buell Cobb’s study encompasses the history of the songbook itself, an analysis of the music, and an intimate portrait of the singers who have kept alive a truly American tradition.

Why Catholics Can't Sing

Author : Thomas Day
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780824511531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Why Catholics Can't Sing written by Thomas Day and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community as reflected in the way Christians worship.

Theological Music

Author : Jon M. Spencer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780313279539
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Theological Music written by Jon M. Spencer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-07-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theomusicology is musicology as a theologically informed discipline. Borrowing thought and method from anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy, it has as its subject the myriad cultural worlds of ethical, religious, and mythological belief. Theomusicological research into cultural/intercultural reflections on the ethical, the religious, and the mythological involves the study of music in the domain or communities of the sacred, the secular, and the profane. By examining the depths of sacrality, secularity, and profanity in the music of civilization's many cultures, the theomusicologist can increasingly discern how particular peoples perceive the universal mysteries that circumscribe their mortal existence, and how the ethics, theologies, and mythologies to which they subscribe shape their worlds. To accomplish his goal, Spencer divides his book into two parts. Part One, The Domain of Theomusicology, functions as a methodological exposition to Part Two. It defines the meaning of and suggested method for theomusicology and delineates the theomusicologist's best and broadest possible perspective on the world. Part Two, The Discourses of Theomusicology, illustrates how theomusicology can, and at its best does, involve dialogue with different disciplines as well as a gamut of historical epochs and movements. Each chapter is divided into sections based on the particular text theomusicology has read and interacted with. Spencer's work establishes theomusicology as a scholarly discipline and a valid research approach to studying world religious, mythological, and ethical beliefs via music. It is essential reading for historical musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of sacred music.

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

Author : Bernice Johnson Reagon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289833
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me written by Bernice Johnson Reagon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A History of Early Sacred Music

Author : Carol B. Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981999050
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A History of Early Sacred Music written by Carol B. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary text for Professor Carol's multi-media course.This history of early sacred music and the forces that shaped it takes you deep into Old Testament times, ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval kings and conquests, and the establishment of Christianity in the Western World.

Exploring Christian Song

Author : M. Jennifer Bloxam
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498549918
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Christian Song written by M. Jennifer Bloxam and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection celebrates the richness of Christian musical tradition across its two thousand year history and across the globe. Opening with a consideration of the fourth-century lamp-lighting hymn Phos hilaron and closing with reflections on contemporary efforts of Ghanaian composers to create Christian worship music in African idioms, the ten contributors engage with a broad ecumenical array of sacred music. Topics encompass Roman Catholic sacred music in medieval and Renaissance Europe, German Lutheran song in the eighteenth century, English hymnody in colonial America, Methodist hymnody adopted by Southern Baptists in the nineteenth century, and Genevan psalmody adapted to respond to the post-war tribulations of the Hungarian Reformed Church. The scope of the volume is further diversified by the inclusion of contemporary Christian topics that address the evangelical methods of a unique Orthodox Christian composer’s language, the shared aims and methods of African-American preaching and gospel music, and the affective didactic power of American evangelical “praise and worship” music. New material on several key composers, including Jacob Obrecht, J.S. Bach, George Philipp Telemann, C.P.E. Bach, Zoltan Kodály, and Arvo Pärt, appears within the book. Taken together, these essays embrace a stimulating variety of interdisciplinary analytical and methodological approaches, drawing on cultural, literary critical, theological, ritual, ethnographical, and media studies. The collection contributes to discussions of spirituality in music and, in particular, to the unifying aspects of Christian sacred music across time, space, and faith traditions. This collection celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music.