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Author Stowe, David W. (David Ware)

Title How sweet the sound : music in the spiritual lives of Americans / David W. Stowe.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  781.7 St78h 2004    ---  Available
Description viii, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents O for a thousand tongues to sing -- Singing independence -- Marching to Zion -- Holding the fort -- Dances with ghosts -- Onward Buddhist soldiers -- Yossele, Yossele! -- Come Sunday -- From Ephrata (F-Ra-Ta) to Arkestra -- The nation with the soul of a church -- Coltrane and beyond.
Subject Sacred songs -- United States -- History and criticism.
Church music.
Music -- Religious aspects.
ISBN 0674012909 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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