Description
About the Author
M. Jennifer Bloxam is professor of music at Williams College. Andrew Shenton is associate professor of music at Boston University.
Reviews
Since ancient times, Christianity has embraced a paradoxical identity: eternal and temporal, celestial and terrestrial, universal and particular, global and local. This sampling spanning ages and continents represents song as sacrament, both a sign and means of Christian unity without uniformity. Ghanian song reflects glocalization (the opposite of globalization)-and so do Renaissance motet prints in the East-West crossroads of Venice, Enlightenment fascination with earthquakes exemplifying the terrible Sublime, and Zoltan Kodaly's Genevan Psalm 50 (1948), contextualized within Hungarian folk music, Reformed psalmody, Jewish genocide, and Stalinist terror. This collection admirably demonstrates the mission of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music as it celebrates fifteen years. -- Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago
This engaging collection is testimony to the vitality and breadth of the emerging conversation between theology and music. Wise and insightful essays address music from various genres, historical eras and cultural settings. Taken together they illuminate the ways that musicians and communities have embodied their faith and devotion-in text and tone and rhythm; likewise, they point to the ways in which music has supported and enabled different dimensions of the life of the church. -- Steven R. Guthrie, Belmont University
This wide-ranging anniversary collection of essays is a harvest home of the excellent scholarship that has animated the Society for Christian Music and Scholarship for the past fifteen years. It not only demonstrates the depth and richness of this vein of interdisciplinary thought, but it shows that the hermeneutic impulse is grounded in a spiritual instinct and a search for truth that acts as a refreshment of the Word. These texts once again bring us to contemplate divine action through music, the variety of revelation it brings, and its profound message of hope that is much needed by our culture today. -- Robert Sholl, Royal Academy of Music
Book Information
ISBN 9781498549929
Author M. Jennifer Bloxam
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 422g
Dimensions(mm) 219mm * 153mm * 16mm