Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch (Eastman Studies in Music) Daniel Jay Grimminger

The Pennsylvania Dutch comprised the largest single ethnic group in the early American Republic of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Pennsylvania Dutch Lutheran and Reformed People (or Kirchenleute, as they often called themselves) struggled to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity in everything that they did, while also considering themselves a permanent thread in the American fabric. The tune and chorale books printed for usein Pennsylvania Dutch churches document the resulting gradual process of Americanization, including notable moments of resistance to change. Daniel Grimminger"s Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch is the onlyin-depth study of the shifting identity of the Pennsylvania Dutch as seen in their music. Through a closer examination of music sources, folk art, and historical contexts, this interdisciplinary study sheds light on the process ofcultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches. Grimminger"s book also provides a model with which to view all ethnic enclaves, in America and elsewhere, and the ways in which loyalties can shift as a group becomes part of a larger cultural fabric. Daniel Grimminger holds doctorates in sacred music and choral conducting, as well as in musicology. He also holds the master of theological studies degree and is a clergyman in the North American Lutheran Church. Grimminger teaches at Kent State University. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch (Eastman Studies in Music) (Daniel Jay Grimminger)