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Sacred Song in America
Religion, Music, and Public Culture
Stephen A. Marini
Cloth978-0-252-02800-7
$34.95
| Pub Date: | 2003 |
| Pages: | 416 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9.25 in. |
| Illustrations: | 324 Lines of Music, 2 Line Drawings |
Exploring sacred song as an integral element of religious culture in America.
In Sacred Song in America, Stephen A. Marini explores the full range of American sacred music and demonstrates how an understanding of the meanings and functions of this musical expression can contribute to a greater understanding of religious culture. Marini examines the role of sacred song across the United States, from the musical traditions of Native Americans and the Hispanic peoples of the Southwest, to the Sacred Harp singers of the rural South and the Jewish music revival to the music of the Mormon, Catholic, and Black churches. Including chapters on New Age and Neo-Pagan music, gospel music, and hymnals as well as interviews with iconic composers of religious music, Sacred Song in America pursues a historical, musicological, and theoretical inquiry into the complex roles of ritual music in the public religious culture of contemporary America.
“This unusually fine and important book has no parallel. I know of no other book on American religious music with as wide a sweep. As a historian of American religion, and as a student and practitioner of sacred music, Marini is simply and utterly unique.”--Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and the author of The Secular City and Fire from Heaven
“Enlightening, well informed, and sophisticated. I know of nothing like it.”--Richard Crawford, author of America’s Musical Life: A History
Subjects:
Southern History & Culture / Religion / Music / Anthropology
