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This book offers readers a fascinating new look into the spiritual side of operetta and musical theatre, two closely related genres often dismissed as trivial, shallow, and essentially secular.
Bradley challenges these judgements and seeks to show that there have been...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-15
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The first biography of arguably the most influential gospel artist of the 20th century, brought to life through interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family
Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andraé Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-03
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An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical Christianity
Few things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the 1950s and the 1960s more than thought of their children falling prey to the "menace to Christendom" known as rock and roll....
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Oxford University Press
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2024-01-04
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Military defeat, political and civil turmoil, and a growing unrest between Catholic traditionalists and increasingly secular Republicans formed the basis of a deep-seated identity crisis in Third Republic France. Beginning in the early 1880s, Republican politicians...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-01
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Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-20
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Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in North America (to say nothing of world over), being engaged from sporting events to political rallies, concerts to churches. Moreover, music's use as an affective agent for...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-12
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Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-01
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The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe.The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-25
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Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-04
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Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-10
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PresentationWe can be our own work.The author has always insisted on the importance of working on the subject, including on the psychic level. So he tells us, "it is a work of creation that is akin to artistic creation". Thus all artistic activity is closely linked to...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
Parution :
2015-05-29
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Izvor (EN)
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The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-21
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The offertory has played a crucial role in recent vigorous debates about the origins of Gregorian chant. Its elaborate solo verses are among the most splendid of chant melodies, yet the verses ceased to be performed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, making them...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-12
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In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-12-21
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Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions--and even of cultures--in a new blend that was non-existent before the Franciscan friars made their way to California beginning in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-07-21
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The popular contemporary Christian music group Point of Grace reflect on their favorite songs.
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2009-06-27
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Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience and has been of fundamental importance in the development of American identity and psyche. The essays in this long-awaited volume explore the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-12-08
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Since Britten's death in 1976, numerous articles and books have been written about his life and work. Much has been made of the strong influences of his pacifism and his homosexuality. It is often suggested that Britten felt himself to be an outsider from 'normal'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-12-08
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An Annotated Anthology of Hymns is a selection of 250 of the best-known hymns in the English language, including texts translated from Greek, Latin, German, and other languages. The selection includes hymns from the earliest years of the Christian church to the present...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-06-21
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