Music in American religious experience

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Music in American religious experience

edited by Philip V. Bohlman, Edith L. Blumhofer, Maria M. Chow

Oxford University Press, 2006

  • : pbk

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"Music in American religious experience began its life as a conference that took place at the University of Chicago, April 22-24, 1994"--P. [ix]

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780195173031

Description

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 studies the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The twenty contributors address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195173048

Description

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 is the study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The twenty contributors address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Martin E. Marty Contributors Introduction: Music in American Religious Experience, Philip V. Bohlman Part I: Experience and Identity 1: Regula Burckhardt Qureshi: When Women Recite: "Music" and the Islamic Immigrant Experience 2: Jon Michael Spencer: African American Religious Music from a Theomusicological Perspective 3: Anne Morrison Spinney: Medeolinuwok, Music, and Missionaries in Maine 4: Margarita Mazo: Singing as an Experience of American-Russian Molokans Part II: Liturgy, Hymnody, and Song 5: Stephen A. Marini: Hymnody and History: Early American Evangelical Hymns as Sacred Music 6: Paul Westermeyer: The Evolution of the Music of German American Protestants in Their Hymnody: A Case Study from an American Perspective 7: Otto Holzapfel: Singing from the Right Songbook: Ethnic Identity and Language Transformation in German American Hymnals 8: Judith Gray: "When in Our Music God Is Glorified:" Singing and Singing about Singing in a Congregational Church Part III: Individuals and the Agency of Faith 9: Edith L. Blumhofer: Fanny Crosby and Protestant Hymnody 10: Philip V. Bohlman: Prayer on the Panorama: Music and Individualism in American Religious Experience 11: Janet Walton: Women's Ritual Music Part IV: Congregation and Community 12: Jeffrey A. Summit: Nusach and Identity: The Contemporary Meaning of Traditional Jewish Prayer Modes 13: Maria M. Chow: Reflections on the Musical Diversity of Chinese Churches in the United States 14: Jeff Todd Titon: "Tuned Up with the Grace of God:" Music and Experience among Old Regular Baptists 15: Don E. Saliers: Aesthetics and Theology in Congregational Song: A Hymnal Intervenes Index

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