Author:
Dowley, Tim.
Imprint:Minneapoli : Fortress Press, c2011.
Description263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Before the church: the Jewish musical tradition -- 2. Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs: music and the early church -- 3. The church goes public: Christian music after Constantine -- 4. Christian chant: the core of medieval worship -- 5. Medieval polyphony -- 6. The music of the renaissance -- 7. A safe stronghold: the music of the Luthern Reformation -- 8. "In quires and places where they sing....": the making of the Anglican tradition -- 9. Psalms, canticles and hymns: the genesis of Christian hymns -- 10. Gloria in excelsis Deo: the making of Catholic Baroque -- 11. Bach and Handel: two great Protestant Baroque composers -- 12. The Viennese tradition: liturgical and non-litergical sacred music -- 13. Heights of intensity: sacred music in the age of romanticism -- 14. Hymns Ancient and Modern: the nineteenth century hymn inductry -- 15. Camp meetings and revivals: the making of the American gospel tradition -- 16."I got a home in dat rock...": Spirituals and the blues -- 17. Apocalypse now!: sacred music and the concert hall in the twentieth century -- 18. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me..." : Popular church music in the twentieth century -- 19. "(Give me that) old time religion": gospel music in the twentieth century -- 20. "I wish we'd all be ready" : the making of the contemporary Christian music industry -- 21. "Ain't nobody nowhere nothin' without God":Christians do country, folk, and jazz.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliogeraphic references (p,247-256) and index.
