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Baptist offspring, southern midwife-- : Jesse Mercer's Cluster of spiritual songs (1810) : a study in American hymnody / Kay Norton.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3160 .N67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norton, Kay.
- Series:
- Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 34.
- Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mercer, Jesse, 1769-1841. Cluster of spiritual songs.
- Mercer, Jesse.
- Baptists--Georgia--Hymns--History and criticism.
- Baptists.
- Hymns, English.
- Georgia.
- Hymns.
- Hymns, English--Georgia--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Hymns, English.
- Hymns.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 202 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 23 x 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Warren, Mich. : Harmonie Park Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Contexts
- 1 A Baptist Genealogy 3
- Baptist Singing 4
- Eighteenth-Century Revivalism 6
- 2 "The Most Delightful Country of the Universe" 11
- Founding 11
- A Royal Colony 15
- After the Revolution 17
- Nineteenth-Century Culture 18
- Part 2 Jesse Mercer, His World, and The Cluster
- 3 Jesse Mercer, Baptist Pioneer 23
- Genealogy 26
- Early Years 27
- Life, Ministry, and The Cluster 31
- 4 Civil Question or Ecclesiastical Issue?: Slaves in Mercer's World 33
- Africans in Early Georgia 34
- Revivals and the First Black Churches 35
- Mercer and African Americans 38
- Blacks and Music 41
- 5 Deconstructing the Apostle Paul: Jesse Mercer and Females 49
- In the Mercer Home 51
- At Church 54
- In Hymns 59
- 6 Reforming Nations: Jesse Mercer and Native Americans 65
- Mission Work 66
- 7 Offspring of Baptist Evangelicalism, Midwife to Southern Hymnody 75
- Texts 77
- Tunes and Performance Practice 80
- Part 3 Texts and Tunes of the 1810 Cluster
- 8 Vestiges of the Great Awakening 93
- Northern Baptist Beginnings 93
- The Wesley Connection 96
- George Whitefield and Lady Selina Huntingdon 102
- "The Excellent Newton" 106
- Rippon's Selection 115
- Joseph Hart 120
- 9 The New Millennium in Song 125
- The Camp Meeting 125
- The Songsters 129
- Folk Tunes 136
- A Southern Icon 136
- 10 Text Sources and Tune Repertory 147
- Cluster Texts 147
- Tune Repertory 157
- "Tuneless Texts" 159
- Hymnals and Musical Sources, by compiler or title 179
- Internet Sites 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-182) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0899901093
- OCLC:
- 48390691
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