Church Music in America, 1620-2000
- ISBN-10
- 0881460265
- ISBN-13
- 9780881460261
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Mercer University Press
- Author
- John Ogasapian
Description
The history of American church music is a particularly fascinating and challenging subject, if for no other reason than because of the variety of diverse religious groups. Different faiths have influenced and even woven their traditions into the fabric of one another's worship practices even as they competed for converts in the free market of American religion. This overview traces the musical practices of several of those groups from their arrival on these shores up to the present, and the way in which those practices and traditions influenced each other, leading to the diverse and multi-hued pattern that is American church music at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The tone is non-technical; there are no musical examples, and the musical descriptions are clear and concise. In short, it is a book for interested laymen as well as professional church musicians, for pastors and seminarians as well as students of American religious culture and its history.
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