The sound of the dove
singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist churches
1st pbk. ed.
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Author
Publication
2001 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100252070038
- ISBN-139780252070037
- Goodreads2314679
- LibraryThing4740923
- Library of Congress Control Number2005561352
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number49202908
- Better World Books9780252070037
- Open LibraryOL3471059M
Classifications
- DDC782.32/264/00974
- LCCML3160 .P28 2001
Description
In The Sound of the Dove, Beverly Bush Patterson explores one of the oldest traditions of American religious folksong, a national heritage of great beauty and dignity that remains vital in the lives and worship of predestinarian Primitive Baptists in the southern mountains. This unaccompanied and frequently unharmonized congregational singing challenges our assumptions about creativity, aesthetics, meaning, and identity. Patterson's revealing study incorporates interviews, field observations, historical research, song transcriptions, and musical analysis. She uses seventeenth-century English documents to trace historical antecedents of Primitive Baptist singing and to frame her discussion of religious belief and gender roles as they intersect with singing. One chapter is devoted to the role of women in this church.
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Series Statement
- Music in American life
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