Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture (Public Express Religion America) - Hardcover

Marini, Stephen A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252028007 ISBN 13: 9780252028007

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2003

Synopsis

In Sacred Song in America, Stephen A. Marini explores the full range of American sacred music and demonstrates how 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.

About this title

Book Description:

Exploring sacred song as an integral element of religious culture in America

About the Author:

Stephen A. Marini is Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and a professor of American religion and ethics at Wellesley College. He is the author of Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0252028007
• ISBN 13: 9780252028007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416