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Sacred song and the Pennsylvania Dutch / Daniel Jay Grimminger ; foreword by Don Yoder.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3555 .G75 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grimminger, Daniel Jay, author.
- Yoder, Don, author of foreword.
- Series:
- Eastman studies in music ; v. 94.
- Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 94
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania Dutch--Music--History and criticism.
- Pennsylvania Dutch.
- Hymns--Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country--History and criticism.
- Hymns.
- Church music--Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
- Church music.
- Music.
- Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 213 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer Limited, [2012]
- Summary:
- The Pennsylvania Dutch were the largest single ethnic group in the American Republic of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet like other ethnic minorities in early America, they struggled to preserve their own distinct cultural identity in everything that they did. Eventually their German Lutheran and Reformed customs and folkways gave way to Anglo-American pressures. The tune and chorale books printed for use in Pennsylvania Dutch churches document this gradual process of Americanization, including notable moments of resistance to change.
- Daniel Grimminger's Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch is the only in-depth study of the shifting identity of the Pennsylvania Dutch as manifested in their music. Through a close examination of music sources, folk art, and historical contexts, this interdisciplinary study sheds light on the process of cultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches.
- Grimminger's book also provides a model with which to view all ethnic enclaves, in America and elsewhere, and the ways in which loyalties can shift as a group becomes part of a larger cultural heritage. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Identity and conflict in Pennsylvania Dutch culture
- Ethnic retention
- Retentive tune and chorale books
- Adaptation and acculturation
- Amalgamation
- The Pennsylvania choral harmony : the culmination of a tradition
- Implications for future work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781580463836
- 1580463835
- OCLC:
- 761854533
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