History of music

Fresh and innovative takes on the dissemination of music in manuscript, print, and, now, electronic formats, revealing how the world has experienced music from the sixteenth century to the present.

Skilfully selected encore pieces add a special touch to a concert.

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.

With the rise of Pentecostalism in the early twentieth century and growth in the charismatic movement since, a resurgence of interest in the Holy Spirit and Christian spirituality in both theology and the church's life has become evident.

The book explores those aspects of Donald MacKinnon's theological writings which challenge the claim of the liberal Catholic tradition in the Church of England to have forged an ecclesiological consensus, namely that the Church is the extension of the incarnation.

A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.

Women today are expected to multitask--to serve, lead, influence, manage their busy schedules, nurture their families, and at the same time harness their emotions.

Die Gemeindegliederzahlen sinken in allen Landeskirchen der EKD dramatisch.

Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music.

Die 1700-jährige Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, der in diesem Jahr 2021 gedacht wird, betrifft auch die Kirchen.

When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were left aghast.

Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517.

Bis heute gilt Deutschland als gelobtes Land der Musik.

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience.

This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition "e;Sounds of Our City"e; and built upon contemporary research.

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'?

The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the region's history, but until now there has been no full-scale look at the regional upheaval or of why it occurred.

Shaker Fancy Goods tells the story of the Shaker Sisters of the nineteenth and early twentieth century who responded to the economic perils of the Industrial Revolution by inventing a lucrative industry of their ownFancy Goods, a Victorian term for small adorned household objects made by women for women.

This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music practices, far away and sometimes in stark opposition to the commodified image of the city crafted by urban planners and associated urban stakeholders.

In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia.

This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music.

This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present.

An anthology featuring the most astute commentators and participants of the underground rise of punk, in this nuanced portrait of the era.

This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections.

"e;My object in writing this book is to encourage and help those students of the violin who are sufficiently intelligent to wish to advance with the times and who realise that in order to free violin playing from the rut of tradition in which it has complacently remained for so long, it is necessary to bring greater insistence to bear on the imaginative and poetical side of violin playing than has been done up to the present"e; Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Ausgehend von der alttestamentlichen Erfahrung des mitgehenden Gottes (Ex 13,21) über die Weggenossenschaft Jesu mit seinen Jüngern (Lk 24,13–35), die Tradition der ägyptischen Wüstenväter bis zu dem starken Impuls des Ignatius von Loyola hat es zu jeder Zeit 'Mütter und Väter im Glauben' gegeben, die das Leben des Christenmenschen mit ihrer Wegweisung und behutsamen Liebe begleitet haben.

The Reformation of the 16th century was a complex and multifaceted political, social, cultural, and religious process.

The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer’s interpretation and use of Luther’s theology in shaping his Christology.

A World-Class Scholar on Luther's Use of ScriptureThe Reformation revolutionized church life through its new appreciation for God's presence working through the Bible.

Uldine Utley defined the "e;girl evangelist"e; of the 1920s and 1930s.

Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous Englishwoman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist.

Martín Lutero (1483-1546) desarrolló la faceta de polemista a lo largo de toda su vida.

The Church of England is on its knees.

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound.

Examines Mendelssohn's relationship to the past, shedding light on the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death.

How sixteen lines written by an obscure poet and painter two hundred years ago became England''s national anthem.

The United Methodist Church is at a crossroads, and nothing is more important than reclaiming our sacramental distinctiveness in times of great divisiveness.

The history of Florida State University's Marching Chiefs is chronicled, from early efforts to found a band before the program's 1939 establishment at Florida State College for Women, to the Chiefs' attainment of "e;world renowned"e; status.