How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans
- ISBN-10
- 0674012909
- ISBN-13
- 9780674012905
- Series
- How Sweet the Sound
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 335
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- David Ware Stowe
Description
The evolution of the sacred music in America's houses of worship from colonial times to today--and from early hymns to hip-hop--is traced in a study that suggests that sacred music may show how different forms of faith have proliferated and sustained themselves.
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