| Description |
xxi, 349 pages : illustrations (black and white), music ; 24 cm |
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text/still image/unmediated/volume/ |
| Subject |
Sacred music -- America -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Exploring Christian sacred music in the Americas / Andrew Shenton, Joanna Smolko -- Liberation theology: affirmation and homage in three Brazilian Masses / Cathy Ann Elias ; The Guatemalan choirbooks: facilitating preservation, performance, and study of the colonial repertoire / Martha E. Thomae -- Sweet harmonies of praise: reviving shape-note singing in rural Arkansas / S. Andrew Granade ; Shape-note hymn traditions in Athens, Georgia / Joanna Smolko ; The hymn tunes of Thomas Hastings / David W. Music -- Além do gospel": a history of Brazil's alternative Christian music scene / Marcell Silva Steurnagel ; Ethics, justice, and politics in contemporary worship music / Jeff W. Warren -- "Resignation" and Virgil Thomson's Hymns from the old South / Zen Kuriyama ; Rock of Ages: Jesus in American popular songs, 1969-2019 / Delvyn Case -- The folk scholarship roots and geopolitical boundaries of Sacred harp's global twenty-first century / Jesse P. Karlsberg ; Anglican church music in the United States: tracing the diaspora of English traditions from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century / Matthew Hoch -- "God with me speaking": envisioning the study of indigenous Christian song in Brazil / Andrew Janzen, Meiry Yakawa ; "Lift every voice and sing": embodying Black theology in song / Stephen Michael Newby, Chelle Stearns ; From the sun to the Son: how Choctaw spiritual practices expressed through music changed in response to Christian and Anglo-American contact / Emma Wimberg -- Epilogue : Singing worlds in the Americas / Michael O'Connor. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Add Author |
Shenton, Andrew, 1962- editor.
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Smolko, Joanna R., editor.
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| LC # |
ML3000 .C47 2021 |
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ML3000 .C47 2021 |
| Dewey # |
781.710097 |
| ISBN |
1538148730 |
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9781538148730 |
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9781538148747 (ePub ebook) |
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