Singing the Lord's song in a strange land

Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer, Mark A. Noll

Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identy and define their relationships with America and to Christianity. Representing seven groups -- Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Mennonites, Holiness, Hispanics, and Evangelicals -- the nine essays reveal how hymns have helped immigrants to establish new identities, contributed to the body of worship resources, and sustained ethnic identity. Individual essays address the music of the Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, America's longest running and most successful independent radio program; singing among Swedish evangelicals in America; the German hymn tradition as transformed by Mennonite immigrants; the ways hymnody reinforces themes of the Wesleyan holiness...

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