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How sweet the sound : music in the spiritual lives of Americans

"How Sweet the Sound traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters have produced a rich harvest of song and faith." "Pursuing the intimate relationship between music and spirituality in America, Stowe focuses on the central creative moments in the unfolding life of sacred song. He fills his pages with the religious music of Indians, Shakers, Mormons, Moravians, African-Americans, Jews, Buddhists, and others. Juxtaposing music cultures across region, ethnicity, and time, he suggests the range and cross-fertilization of religious beliefs and musical practices that have formed the spiritual customs of the United States, producing a multireligious, multicultural brew."
Print Book, English, 2004
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674012905, 0674012909
53831743
O for a thousand tongues to sing
Singing independence
Marching to Zion
Holding the fort
Dances with ghosts
Onward Buddhist soldiers
Yossele, Yossele!
Come Sunday
From Ephrata (F-Ra-Ta) to Arkestra
The nation with the soul of a church
Coltrane and beyond
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