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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Exploring Christian Sacred Music in the Americas
Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko
I. Liturgical Music
1. Liberation Theology: Affirmation and Homage in Three Brazilian Popular Masses
Cathy Ann Elias
2. The Guatemalan Choirbooks: Facilitating Preservation, Performance, and Study of the Colonial Repertoire
Martha Thomae
II. Hymnology
3. Sweet Harmonies of Praise: Reviving Shape Note Singing in Rural Arkansas
Andrew Granade
4. Hymns of Joyful Praise: Sacred Harp Singing in Athens, Georgia
Joanna Smolko
5. The Hymn Tunes of Thomas Hastings
David W. Music
III. Contemporary Worship
6. 'Evangélico e Brasileiro': Brazil's Alternative Christian Music Scene
Marcell Silva Steuernagel
7. Ethics, Justice, and Politics in Contemporary Worship Music
Jeff R. Warren
IV. Paraliturgical Music
8. 'Resignation' and Virgil Thomson's Hymns from the Old South
Zen Kuriyama
9. "Rock of Ages: Images of Jesus in Popular Music."
Delvyn Case
V. Diasporic Music
10. The Folk Scholarship Roots and Geopolitical Boundaries of Sacred Harp's Global 21
st Century
Jesse Karlsberg
11. Anglican Diaspora: Episcopal Church Music in the Twenty First Century
Matthew Hoch
VI. Indigenous and African American Music
12. 'Woman, Arise and Speak': Envisioning the Study of Indigenous Christian Song in Brazil
Andrew Janzen and Meiry Yakawa
13. From the Sun to the Son: How Christian Missionaries used Music to Evangelize the Choctaw People
Emma Wimberg
14. Lift Every Voice and Sing: Embodying Black Theology in Song
Stephen Michael Newby and Chelle Stearns
Epilogue: Singing Worlds in the Americas
Michael O'Connor
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Edited by Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko
