Contributor
Shenton, Andrew, 1962- editor.
ImprintLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Imprint2021
Descriptionxxi, 349 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction: Exploring Christian Sacred Music in the Americas / Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko -- I. LITURGICAL MUSIC -- Liberation Theology: Affirmation and Homage in Three Brazilian Masses / Cathy Ann Elias -- The Guatemalan Choirbooks: Facilitating Preservation, Performance, and Study of the Colonial Repertoire / Martha E. Thomae -- II. HYMNOLOGY -- Sweet Harmonies of Praise: Reviving Shape-Note Singing in Rural Arkansas / S. Andrew Granade -- Shape-Note Hymn Traditions in Athens, Georgia / Joanna Smolko -- The Hymn Tunes of Thomas Hastings / David. W. Music -- III. CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP -- "Além do gospel": A History of Brazil's Alternative Christian Music Scene / Marcell Silva Steuernagel -- Ethics, Justice, and Politics in Contemporary Worship Music / Jeff R. Warren -- IV. PARALITURGICAL MUSIC -- "Resignation" and Virgil Thomson's Hymns from the Old South / Zen Kuriyama -- Rock of Ages: Jesus in American Popular Songs, 1969-2019 / Delvyn Case -- V. DIASPORIC MUSIC -- The Folk Scholarship Roots and Geopolitical Boundaries of Sacred Harp's Global Twenty-First Century / Jess P. Karlsberg -- Anglican Church Music in the United States: Tracing the Diaspora of English Traditions from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-FirstCentury / Matthew Hoch -- VI. INDIGENOUS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC -- "God with Me Speaking": Envisioning the Study of Indigenous Christian Song in Brazil / Andrew Janzen and Meiry Yakawa -- "Lift Every Voice and Sing": Embodying Black Theology in Song / Stephen Michael Newby and Chelle Stearns -- From the Sun to the Son: How Choctaw Spiritual Practices Expressed Through Music Changed in Response to Christian and Anglo-American Contact / Emma Wimberg -- Epilogue: Singing Worlds in the Americas / Michael O'Connor.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:This edited volume explores the richness and diversity of Christian musical traditions in the Americas. The essays present a cross-section of current scholarship on Christian sacred music and the approaches to studying them in context.
