Full 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.
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
