Music in American Religious Experience

Author:   Philip V. Bohlman (Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, University of Chicago) ,  Edith Blumhofer (Director, Director, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College) ,  Maria Chow (Director of Acadmeic Studies and Lecturer, Director of Acadmeic Studies and Lecturer, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts)
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9780195173048


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   13 January 2005
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Author:   Philip V. Bohlman (Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, University of Chicago) ,  Edith Blumhofer (Director, Director, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College) ,  Maria Chow (Director of Acadmeic Studies and Lecturer, Director of Acadmeic Studies and Lecturer, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780195173048


ISBN 10:   019517304
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   13 January 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"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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<br> Music in American Religious Experience is a fine collection of essays that enlighten us on a great variety of research topics concerning sacred music in America. The articles that discuss Lutheran hymnody and worship are ground breaking, and it would do Lutheran church musicians well to read them. By doing so, their understanding of the music that they use weekly in worship will be deeper and their consideration of other religious groups will gain them appreciation for the musical traditions of those people. --Cross Accent<br> Music in American Religious Experience is a welcome contribution to musicology.... Those who have contributed to this project have written essays as diverse as they are enlightening. --Journal of the Society for American Music<br>This varied and insightful volume focuses on music as apart of the American religious experience, from the time of the The Bay Psalm Book (1640) to the present. The contributors are scholars in musicology and history, and the essays


Music in American Religious Experience is a fine collection of essays that enlighten us on a great variety of research topics concerning sacred music in America. The articles that discuss Lutheran hymnody and worship are ground breaking, and it would do Lutheran church musicians well to read them. By doing so, their understanding of the music that they use weekly in worship will be deeper and their consideration of other religious groups will gain them appreciation for the musical traditions of those people. --Cross Accent<br> Music in American Religious Experience is a welcome contribution to musicology.... Those who have contributed to this project have written essays as diverse as they are enlightening. --Journal of the Society for American Music<br> This varied and insightful volume focuses on music as apart of the American religious experience, from the time of the The Bay Psalm Book (1640) to the present. The contributors are scholars in musicology and history, and the essays show the diverse ways that music has imprinted itself on the religious consciousness and history of the US. The editors divide the book into four parts. Offering a fascinating and unique look at American music and religion, this book examines topics and relationships previously unresearched and undocumented. --Choice<br> Music in American Religious Experience positions music and religion at the very heart of North American everyday life. Central to the sacred journey embraced by the religious communities and traditions documented in this book, music contributes to the formation of communities--Hutterites in Canada, Old Regular Baptists in Kentucky, Chinese Americans churches, Wabanaki Catholics, Jewish synagogues in Boston, and many more--as they negotiate historical, contemporary, and frequently politicized identities. The rich essays included in this book suggest that a vibrant sacred soundscape exists in America's churches and synagogues, often in our own backyard! --Gregory Barz, Vanderbilt University, author of Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania<br> Singing, which time out of mind has been everywhere constitutive of religious community, has only recently emerged as a subject of vigorous study. This expert and welcome volume joins other recent efforts that are trying to understand how and why music has been so central in different ways to different religious traditions. Its chapters--on Wabanakis and Wesleyans, Muslims and Molokans, German Lutherans and the Chinese and Missionary Alliance, Isaac Watts and Fanny Crosby, and more--provide solid individual studies; together they demonstrate the superlative importance of music in American religious experience. --Mark A. Noll, author, America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (OUP, 2002)<br> In an age when fundamentalisms of religious music tempt practitioners to circle the wagons or to make occasional half-hearted forays into foreign (sometimes perceived as enemy) territory, this book opens up the possibility for discovering peaceful and fertile common ground. This should be a 'must read' for every educational program in pastoral and liturgical music, for in the astounding diversity reflected in these essays one easily observes a shared American religious/musical journey ready to be mined for new insights that can only lead to awakened vocational enthusiasm. --Mark P.Bangert, John H. Tietjen Professor of Pastoral Ministry: Worship and Church Music, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago<br>


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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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