Music In American Religious Experience

by Bohlman, Philip V.; Blumhofer, Edith; Chow, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780195173048
• ISBN10: 019517304X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience and has been of fundamental importance in the development of American identity and psyche. The essays in this long-awaited volume explore the diverse ways in which musicshapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States and address the fullness of music's presence in American religious history. Timely, challenging, and stimulating, this collection will appeal to students and scholars of American history, American studies, religious studies, theology, musicology, and ethnomusicology, as well as to practicing sacred musicians.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword,	v
Martin E. Marty
Contributors,	xv
Introduction: Music in American Religious Experience,	3	(20)
Philip V. Bohlman
PART I Experience and Identity
1. When Women Recite: "Music" and Islamic Immigrant Experience,	23	(20)
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
2. African American Religious Music from a Theomusicological Perspective,	43	(14)
Jon Michael Spencer
3. Medeolinuwok, Music, and Missionaries in Maine,	57	(26)
Ann Morrison Spinney
4. Singing as Experience among Russian American Molokans,	83	(40)
Margarita Mazo
PART II Liturgy, Hymnody, and Song
5. Hymnody and History: Early American Evangelical Hymns as Sacred Music,	123	(32)
Stephen A. Marini
6. The Evolution of the Music of German American Protestants in Their Hymnody: A Case Study from an American Perspective,	155	(20)
Paul Westermeyer
7. Singing from the Right Songbook: Ethnic Identity and Language Transformation in German American Hymnals,	175	(20)
Otto Holzapfel
8. "When in Our Music God Is Glorified:" Singing and Singing about Singing in a Congregational Church,	195	(20)
Judith Gray
PART III Individuals and the Agency of Faith
9. Fanny Crosby and Protestant Hymnody,	215	(18)
Edith L. Blumhofer
10. Prayer on the Panorama: Music and Individualism in American Religious Experience,	233	(22)
Philip V. Bohlman
11. Women's Ritual Music,	255	(16)
Janet Walton
PART IV Congregation and Community
12. Nusach and Identity: The Contemporary Meaning of Traditional Jewish Prayer Modes,	271	(16)
Jeffrey A. Summit
13. Reflections on the Musical Diversity of Chinese Churches in the United States,	287	(24)
Maria M. Chow
14. "Tuned Up with the Grace of God": Music and Experience among Old Regular Baptists,	311	(24)
Jeff Todd Titon
15. Aesthetics and Theology in Congregational Song: A Hymnal Intervenes,	335	(10)
Don E. Saliers
Index,	345