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Title Music in American religious experience / edited by Philip V. Bohlman, Edith L. Blumhofer, Maria M. Chow
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) : illustrations, map, music
Contents Foreword / Martin E. Marty -- Introduction : music in American religious experience / Philip V. Bohlman -- 1. When women recite : "music' and Islamic immigrant experience / Regula Burchkardt Qureshi -- 2. African American religious music from a theomusicological perspective / Jon Michael Spencer -- 3. Medeolinuwok, music, and missionaries in Maine / Ann Morrison Spinney -- 4. Singing as experience among Russian American Molokans / Margarita Mazo -- 5. Hymnody and history : early American evangelical hymns as sacred music / Stephen A. Marini -- 6. The evolution of the music of German American Protestants in their hymnody : a case study from an American perspective / Paul Westermeyer -- 7. Singing from the right songbook : ethnic identity and language transformation in German American hymnals / Otto Holzapfel
8. "When in our music God is glorified:" singing and singing about singing in a congregational church / Judith Gray -- 9. Fanny Crosby and Protestant hymnody / Edith L. Blumhofer -- 10. Prayer on the panorama : music and individualism in American religious experience / Philip V. Bohlman -- 11. Women's ritual music / Janet Walton -- 12. Nusach and identity : the contemporary meaning of traditional Jewish prayer modes / Jeffrey A. Summit -- 13. Reflections on the musical diversity of Chinese churches in the United States / Maria M. Chow -- 14. "Tuned up with the grace of God" : music and experience among old regular baptists / Jeff Todd Titon -- 15. Aesthetics and theology in congregational song : a hymnal intervenes / Don E. Saliers
Summary 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
Notes Papers from a conference held at the U. of Chicago, Apr. 22-24, 1994
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
Music -- Religious aspects.
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music History & Criticism, Vocal.
SUBJECT United States -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses
Subject United States.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel
Chow, Maria M
Oxford University Press