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Singing the Lord's song in a strange land : hymnody in the history of North American Protestantism / edited by Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll ; [with an introduction by Stephen Marini].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Religion and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hymns--North America--History and criticism.
- Hymns.
- Protestant churches--North America--History.
- Protestant churches.
- North America--Church history.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. From Classical to Modern: Hymnody and the Development of American Evangelicalism, 1737-1970 - Stephen Marini
- 2. Reading between the Lines: Slaves, Women, and Native Americans Reflected in an Important Southern Hymnal of 1810 - Kay Norton
- 3. "Old Favourites" or "New Style": Creating the Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church in Canada - Barbara Murison
- 4. In the Shadow of Calvin and Watts: Twentieth-Century American Presbyterians and Their Hymnals - Darryl G. Hart
- 5. The Anatomy of Immigrant Hymnody: Faith Communicated in the Swedish Covenant Church - Scott E. Erickson
- 6. Lifting the Joists with Music: The Hymnological Transition from German to English for North American Mennonites, 1840-1940 - David Rempel Smucker
- 7. "Wrestling Jacob": The Central Struggle and Emotional Scripts of Camp-Meeting Holiness Hymnody - Chris Armstrong
- 8. Alabaré a mi Señor: Hymnody as Ideology in Latino Protestantism - Daniel Ramirez
- 9. "Sing Thy Power to Save": Music on the "Old Fashioned Revival Hour" Radio Broadcast - Daniel Fuller, Philip Goff, and Katherine McGinn
- Contributors
- Index of First Lines, Titles, and Tunes
- Main Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8880-X
- OCLC:
- 891395478
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