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WHEN SUNDAY COMES
Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD Gospel music after the Golden Age “When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for—a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music.” —ROBERT M. MAROVICH, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post– Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold’s in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel’s incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers.
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Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music’s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
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CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is a professor of African American and African studies and history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South and The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.
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MADAM C. J. WALKER’S GOSPEL OF GIVING
Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow
TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN Foreword by A’Lelia Bundles The iconic businesswoman’s life of generosity and inspiration “This is no simple story of Madam Walker’s charitable giving. Instead, by spanning the course of Walker’s remarkable life from the daughter of enslaved parents to beauty culture mogul, Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s brilliant and impeccably researched book demonstrates that wealth did not drive Walker to give, but that she was the embodiment of a much longer, though often hidden, tradition of black philanthropy. This book will forever change the way we understand Walker’s importance and provides a much needed context for contemporary calls for economic justice.” —TIFFANY GILL, author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
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Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America’s first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow.
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Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s biography highlights how giving shaped Walker’s life before and after she became wealthy. Poor and widowed when she arrived in St. Louis in her twenties, Walker found mentorship among black churchgoers and working black women. Her adoption of faith, racial uplift, education, and self-help soon informed her dedication to assisting black women’s entrepreneurship, financial independence, and activism. Walker embedded her philanthropy in how she grew her business, forged alliances with groups like the National Association of Colored Women, funded schools and social service agencies led by African American women, and enlisted her company’s sales agents in local charity and advocacy work.
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Illuminating and dramatic, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving broadens our understanding of black women’s charitable giving and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy. TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN is an assistant professor of philanthropic studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
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REMAKING MUSLIM LIVES
Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
DAVID HENIG The emergence of meaning from faith and history “Through his graceful rendering of lives constrained by debt and foreshortened economic horizons, Henig reveals the potent entwining of religion and history that shapes village life and orients social worlds in this rural space of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Remaking Muslim Lives is a beautifully written book about futures and pasts and the everyday work in between.” —SARAH E. WAGNER, coauthor of Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives and societal values. David Henig draws on a decade of fieldwork to examine the historical, social, and emotional labor undertaken by people to live in an unfinished past—and how doing so shapes the present. In particular, Henig questions how contemporary religious imagination, experience, and practice infuse and interact with social forms like family and neighborhood and with the legacies of past ruptures and critical events. His observations and analysis go to the heart of how societal and historical entanglements shape, fracture, and reconfigure religious convictions and conduct.
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Provocative and laden with eyewitness detail, Remaking Muslim Lives offers a rare sustained look at what it means to be Muslim and live a Muslim life in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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DAVID HENIG is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.
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UPON THE ALTAR OF WORK
Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
BETSY WOOD The North-South divide over child labor, 1850–1939 “Betsy Wood manages to say highly original things about an old subject—the movement to abolish child labor. Was the labor of children a new form of slavery or an embodiment of the free labor ideal sanctified by the Civil War? Wood shows how, despite (white) sectional reconciliation, a deep divide between reform-minded northerners and rural southerners over child labor, and the power of the government to abolish it, persisted well into the twentieth century. At a time when millions of children are at work throughout the world, the book is extraordinarily timely.” —ERIC FONER Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.
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Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-theground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.
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BETSY WOOD is a professor of history at Hudson County Community College.
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LUCRETIA MOTT SPEAKS
The Essential Speeches and Sermons
LUCRETIA MOTT Edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, and Beverly Wilson Palmer An invaluable collection of the iconic reformer’s words and works “This book lays excellent groundwork for much-needed scholarship. . . . General readers will be pleasantly surprised to find a lively, spirited, radical, complex woman who defies common stereotypes.” —QUAKER STUDIES Best known as one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) engaged in the broad sisterhood of reforms over six decades. Drawing on widely scattered archives and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks collects the essential speeches and remarks from Mott’s remarkable career as one of the great activists in American history. The selections represent important themes and events in her public life, including her prominent role in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, and illuminate her passionate belief that her many causes were intertwined. Helpful annotations provide vibrant context and show Mott’s engagement with allies, critics, and opponents. The result is an authoritative resource, one that enriches our understanding of Mott’s views and still-powerful influence on American society.
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CHRISTOPHER DENSMORE was the curator of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College and is the author of Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator. CAROL FAULKNER is a professor of history at Syracuse University and the author of Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. NANCY HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds. BEVERLY WILSON PALMER is a research associate at Pomona College and the editor or coeditor of numerous documentary editions, including Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.
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ALWAYS THE QUEEN
The Denise LaSalle Story
DENISE LASALLE, with DAVID WHITEIS The autobiography of the southern soul superstar “I’ve known Denise LaSalle for many years personally, professionally, and spiritually. Her legacy will live on forever. I am blessed to have been a ‘Knight in Her Majesty’s court.’ Long live the Queen.” —BENNY LATIMORE Denise LaSalle’s journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated the classic blueswoman’s stance of powerful independence while her earthy lyrics about relationships connected with generations of female fans. Off-stage, she enjoyed ongoing success as a record label owner, entrepreneur, and genre-crossing songwriter. As honest and no-nonsense as the artist herself, Always the Queen is LaSalle’s in-her-own-words story of a lifetime in music. Moving to Chicago as a teen, LaSalle launched a career in gospel and blues that eventually led to the chart-topping 1971 smash “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” and a string of R&B hits. She reinvented herself as a soul-blues artist as tastes changed and became a headliner on the revitalized southern soul circuit and at festivals nationwide and overseas. Revered for a tireless dedication to her music and fans, LaSalle continued to tour and record until shortly before her death.
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DENISE LASALLE (1934–2018) was a soul and blues singer-songwriter and businesswoman. Her songs include “Trapped by a Thing Called Love,” “Married, but Not to Each Other,” and the modern-day soul-blues standards “A Lady in the Street,” “Don’t Jump My Pony,” and “Someone Else Is Steppin’ In.” LaSalle entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. DAVID WHITEIS is a journalist, writer, and educator living in Chicago. His books include Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago and Southern Soul-Blues.
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THE HEART OF A WOMAN
The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
RAE LINDA BROWN Edited and with a Foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. Afterword by Carlene J. Brown An in-depth look at the groundbreaking black woman composer “Rae Linda Brown’s work extends beyond the conventional biography as it offers an analytical narrative that interrogates Price’s negotiation of the politics of race and gender, her role in advancing the black symphonic aesthetic, and her dedication to social change and racial equality on and off of the concert stage.” —TAMMY L. KERNODLE, author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works.
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Price’s twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price’s major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
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RAE LINDA BROWN was a professor at the University of Michigan and a professor and Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She was the author of Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters: An Annotated Catalog. She died in 2017. GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY JR. is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop.
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DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE
Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School
Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.” —GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 232 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES
University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.
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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.
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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.
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PROPHETIC AUTHORITY
Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood
MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY A prophet’s voice in early Mormonism “In Prophetic Authority, MacKay gives us the most thorough and painstaking description of the slow blossoming of the Mormon priesthood hierarchy available, embedding the story in the raucous context of antebellum American democracy. Valuable for anyone who wants to understand either of those worlds better.” —MATTHEW BOWMAN, author of Christian: The Politics of a Word in America The Mormon tradition’s emphasis on prophetic authority makes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unique within America’s religious culture. The religion that Joseph Smith created established a kingdom of God in a land distrustful of monarchy while positioning Smith as Christ’s voice on earth, with the power to form cities, establish economies, and arrange governments.
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Michael Hubbard MacKay traces the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ claim to religious authority and sets it within the context of its times. Delving into the evolution of the concept of prophetic authority, MacKay shows how the Church emerged as a hierarchical democracy with power diffused among leaders Smith chose. At the same time, Smith’s settled place atop the hierarchy granted him an authority that spared early Mormonism the internal conflict that doomed other religious movements. Though Smith faced challenges from other leaders, the nascent Church repeatedly turned to him to decide civic plans and define the order of both the cosmos and the priesthood.
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MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY is an associate professor at Brigham Young University and a former historian for the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He is the author of Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism and coauthor of Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones.
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CHICAGO CATÓLICO
Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
DEBORAH E. KANTER How churches transformed Mexican communities and an American city “Chicago Católico is the first book of its kind, a superb history of Mexican parish life in a city of diverse Catholic immigrants. Kanter relates a fascinating tale of faith, identity, and the transformation of a city’s largest religious institution.” —TIMOTHY MATOVINA, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer Spanish-language mass to congregants. How did the city’s Mexican population, contained in just two parishes prior to 1960, come to reshape dozens of parishes and neighborhoods? Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago’s Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbors, and by the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. Kanter shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities. In an ever-evolving city, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans’ fierce devotion to their churches transformed neighborhoods such as Pilsen.
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The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, Chicago Católico illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present- day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05184-5 A volume in the series Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest, edited by Frances R. Aparicio, Omar Valerio-Jiménez, and Sujey Vega
DEBORAH E. KANTER is John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College. She is the author of Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850.
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DISABILITY RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN EDUCATION
The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills Schools District
BRUCE J. DIERENFIELD and DAVID A. GERBER A clash between disability rights and church-state separation “By delving into one family’s pursuit of disability rights, Dierenfield and Gerber offer a provocative and accessible examination of a broad set of issues related to disability rights. A valuable resource for scholars and the classroom.” —ALLISON C. CAREY, author of On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
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In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school.
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Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests’ story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family’s effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-state issues and legal controversies that informed the case, its journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of the high court’s ruling on the course of disability accommodation and religious liberty.
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BRUCE J. DIERENFIELD is a professor of history and director of the all-college honors program at Canisius College. His books include the The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America. DAVID A. GERBER is a University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the University at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies. He is the author of Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century and editor of Disabled Veterans in History.
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MUSICAL ETHICS AND ISLAM
The Art of Playing the Ney
BANU ŞENAY The “sweet servitude” of learning the ney in today’s Turkey “Musical Ethics and Islam is easy on the mind’s eye and the ear, full of insight, and a genuine pleasure to read. Şenay well understands her instrument, the crafting of its sounds and the complex demands of her teacher’s ‘jealous gift.’ It charts a new and distinct route through the cultural complexities of Islamic revival in Turkey and beyond; her conclusions will be of real interest to anthropologists of music and of Islam alike.” —MARTIN STOKES, coeditor of Islam and Popular Culture After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkey’s secularized society disdained the ney, the Sufi reed flute long associated with Islam. The instrument’s remarkable revival in today’s cities has inspired the creation of teaching and learning sites that range from private ney studios to cultural and religious associations and from university clubs to mosque organizations.
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Banu Şenay documents the years-long training required to become a neyzen—a player of the ney. The process holds a transformative power that invites students to create a new way of living that involves alternative relationships with the self and others, changing perceptions of the city, and a dedication to craftsmanship. Şenay visits reed harvesters and travels from studios to workshops to explore the practical processes of teaching and learning. She also becomes an apprentice ney-player herself, exploring the desire for spirituality that encourages apprentices and masters alike to pursue ney music and its scaffolding of Islamic ethics and belief.
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BANU ŞENAY is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Beyond Turkey’s Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora.
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SIGNS OF THE SPIRIT
Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life
TONY PERMAN Investigating the power of music to shape emotion and community in Zimbabwe “Perhaps of the greatest benefit for anyone in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, Signs of the Spirit provides the most thorough and coherent general theory of music and emotion to date. Perman’s theory, in turn, is based on a highly specified explanation of the ways that musical performance and emotion are meaningful and, especially, the ways iconic and symbolic generality are transformed into an unqualified experience of the indexical here-and-now.” —THOMAS TURINO, author of Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
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In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity.
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Perman’s encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life’s milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group. Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau’s collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform ceremonial performance into emotions and community.
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TONY PERMAN is an assistant professor of music at Grinnell College.
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OWEN LOVEJOY AND THE COALITION FOR EQUALITY
Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE An Illinois activist and his abolitionist alliance “The Moores have now given us the most thorough biography of Lovejoy to date. Grounded in deep research and an unparalleled familiarity with the ins and outs of Illinois politics, the Moores demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in the creation of the ‘coalition for equality’ that eventually brought slavery down.” —JAMES OAKES, author of The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
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Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy’s gregarious personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful leader the coalition needed.
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Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their agendas into a single antislavery religious and political campaign for equality, with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery.
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JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE are codirectors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy and the editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.
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BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE 2
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STEVE CUSHING Face-to-face with the blues, one more time “Cushing has provided a massive public service . . . with this enthralling volume.” —JUKE BLUES
“Rarely are sequels better than the originals, but Blues Before Sunrise 2 is a happy exception. Cushing delivers another truly significant contribution to the blues literature.” —EDWARD KOMARA, editor of Encyclopedia of the Blues In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Brewer Phillips (talking about his days with Memphis Minnie) to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty ”The Dancing Tailor” Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day.
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Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others, while a handful of Cushing’s early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.
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Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues. STEVE CUSHING has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for forty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews and Pioneers of the Blues Revival.
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The 1920–21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions
DAVID O. MCKAY Edited by Reid L. Neilson and Carson V. Teuscher The day-by-day account of an epic spiritual quest “A very important work. This travel journal tells the story of a great man’s baptism into other worlds of culture, language, nationhood, and appreciation for peoples outside of his purview. The more one knows about David O. McKay, the more one recognizes that this international experience changed the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” —R. LANIER BRITSCH, author of Moramona: The Mormons in Hawai‘i In 1920, David O. McKay embarked on a journey that forever changed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His visits to the Latter-day Saint missions, schools, and branches in the Pacific solidified the Church leadership’s commitment to global outreach. As importantly, the trip inspired McKay’s own initiatives when he later became Church president.
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McKay’s account of his odyssey brings to life the story of the Church of Jesus Christ’s transformation into a global faith. Throughout his diary, McKay expressed his humanity, curiosity, and fascination with cultures and places—the Maori hongi, East Asian customs, Australian wildlife, and more. At the same time, he and his travel companion, Hugh J. Cannon, detailed the Latter-day Saint missionary life of the era, closely observing logistical challenges and cultural differences, guiding various church efforts, and listening to followers’ impressions and concerns. Reid L. Neilson and Carson V. Teuscher’s meticulous notes provide historical, religious, and general context for the reader.
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Blending travelogue with history, Pacific Apostle illuminates the thought and work of an essential figure in the twentieth-century Church of Jesus Christ. DAVID O. MCKAY (1873–1970) was the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. REID L. NEILSON is the Assistant Church Historian and Recorder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is an award-winning author and editor of dozens of books on the Latter- day Saints. CARSON V. TEUSCHER is a past Andrew Jenson Fellow in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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ISLAND GOSPEL
Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States
MELVIN L. BUTLER A rare look at Jamaican Pentecostals and their music “Island Gospel is a much-needed and important contribution to Pentecostal studies and ethnomusicology. . . . The book offers insights that will be useful to scholars and students across a wide range of fields and disciplines.” —JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH
“The most extensive ethnographic study to date of Pentecostal music practices. The author’s perspective as a practicing believer and respected ethnomusicologist provides unprecedented access to the community and a deep understanding of Pentecostal traditions and discourses.” —JUDAH COHEN, author of Jewish Liturgical Music in Nineteenth-Century America
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Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicates music’s place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities.
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Melvin L. Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the concept of flow, Butler’s ethnography evokes both the experience of Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music’s vital place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their evolving tradition.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05176-0 A volume in the series African American Music in Global Perspective, edited by Portia K. Maultsby Publication of this book is supported by a grant from the Bruno Nettl Endowment for Ethnomusicology.
Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.
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MELVIN L. BUTLER is an associate professor of musicology at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and a saxophonist with Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band and many other artists.
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THE CASHAWAY PSALMODY Transatlantic Religion and Music in Colonial Carolina
STEPHEN A. MARINI Reviving spirit and music from the pages of a once-lost text “Offering a microhistory of meticulous precision, Marini forges through it a study of broad interdisciplinary scope, a rare synthesizing perspective on the musical, religious, commercial, and educational cultures of the eighteenth-century colonies. I know of no one else in the field who could have pulled off this feat the way Marini has— an exceptional combination of indefatigable archival research with practiced musical expertise.” —LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality Singing master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hills’s level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill.
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Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody’s significance in understanding how ritual song—transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing—shaped the era’s development. Marini also uses close musical and textual analyses to provide a critical study that offers music historians and musicologists valuable insights on the Psalmody and its period.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05170-8 A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication of this book was supported by the Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Meticulous in presentation and interdisciplinary in scope, The Cashaway Psalmody unlocks an important source for understanding life in the Lower South in the eighteenth century.
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STEPHEN A. MARINI is the Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and a professor of American religion and ethics at Wellesley College. He is the author of Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture and contributing editor for sacred music for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, and singing-master of Norumbega Harmony, a choral ensemble specializing in eighteenth-century AngloAmerican psalmody.
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COLLABORATORS FOR EMANCIPATION
Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy
WILLIAM F. MOORE and JANE ANN MOORE How a unique relationship aided the fight to end slavery “A useful corrective to those historians and others who have overemphasized Lincoln’s cautious temperament at the expense of his radical leanings, or his alleged timidity regarding emancipation, or his substantive disagreements, such as they were, with abolitionists. . . . A book worth reading and pondering.” —CIVIL WAR BOOK REVIEW 216 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 6 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854. One was a cautious lawyer who deplored abolitionists’ flouting of the law, the other an outspoken antislavery activist who captained a stop on the Underground Railroad. Yet the two built a relationship that, in Lincoln’s words, “was one of increasing respect and esteem.”
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In Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy, the authors examine the thorny issue of the pragmatism typically ascribed to Lincoln versus the radicalism of Lovejoy, and the role each played in ending slavery. Exploring the men’s politics, personal traits, and religious convictions, the book traces their separate paths in life as well as their frequent interactions. Collaborators for Emancipation shows how Lincoln and Lovejoy influenced one another and analyzes the strategies and systems of belief each brought to the epic controversies of slavery versus abolition and union versus disunion.
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Moore and Moore, editors of a previous volume of Lovejoy’s writings, use their deep knowledge of his words and life to move beyond mere politics to a nuanced perspective on the fabric of religion and personal background that underlay the minister’s worldview. Their multifaceted work of history and biography reveals how Lincoln embraced the radical idea of emancipation, and how Lovejoy shaped his own radicalism to wield the pragmatic political tools needed to reach that ultimate goal. WILLIAM F. MOORE and JANE ANN MOORE are co-directors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition, and editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.
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RITUAL SOUNDINGS
Women Performers and World Religions
SARAH WEISS Representing women’s traditions and re-envisioning comparative practices “As I read along, I found myself smiling and nodding at the text’s cleverness and its validating evidence for women’s agency in the performance of scandalous ‘soundings’ of protest and dissent. This is a fascinating, well-written, and extraordinarily well-researched book.” —ELLEN KOSKOFF, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender
“This study is a treasure trove of marriage-rituals that women perform within the context of the world religion they are affiliated to. It is a pleasure to savour the presentation of their variety.” —RELIGION AND GENDER 198 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 1 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH, 1 TABLE
The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women of southern Italy perform tarantella on pilgrimages while Muslim Berger girls recite poetry at Moroccan weddings. Around the world, women actively claim agency through performance during such ritual events. These moments, though brief, allow them a rare freedom to move beyond culturally determined boundaries.
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In Ritual Soundings, Sarah Weiss reads deeply into and across the ethnographic details of multiple studies while offering a robust framework for studying music and world religion. Her meta-ethnography reveals surprising patterns of similarity between unrelated cultures. Deftly blending ethnomusicology, the study of gender in religion, and sacred music studies, she invites ethnomusicologists back into comparative work, offering them encouragement to think across disciplinary boundaries. As Weiss delves into a number of less-studied rituals, she offers a forceful narrative of how women assert agency within institutional religious structures while remaining faithful to the local cultural practices the rituals represent.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05113-5 A volume in the series New Perspectives on Gender in Music, edited by Suzanne Cusick and Henry Spiller Publication of this book is supported by the Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
SARAH WEISS is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Kunst Universität Graz). She is the author of Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java.
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MORMONS, MUSICAL THEATER, AND BELONGING IN AMERICA JAKE JOHNSON Using others’ voices to bring one closer to God “Through careful historiography and close attention to sound, Johnson expertly maps the intersections of voice studies, Mormon doctrine, race and religion, and the worlds of American musical theater. Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America convinces us that theology, theatricality, nationality, and vocality are entwined in Mormonism and extend in fascinating ways into American popular culture.” —JEFFERS ENGELHARDT, author of Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia 222 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 5 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 12 MUSIC EXAMPLES
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important theological tenets. As Church membership grew, leaders saw how the genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into many aspects of Mormon life.
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Jake Johnson merges the study of belonging in America with scholarship on voice and popular music to explore the surprising yet profound link between two quintessentially American institutions. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mormons gravitated toward musicals as a common platform for transmitting political and theological ideas. Johnson sees Mormons using musical theater as a medium for theology of voice—a religious practice that suggests how vicariously voicing another person can bring one closer to godliness. This sounding, Johnson suggests, created new opportunities for living. Voice and the musical theater tradition provided a site for Mormons to negotiate their way into middle-class respectability. At the same time, musical theater became a unique expressive tool of Mormon culture.
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JAKE JOHNSON is an assistant professor of musicology in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University.
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THUNDER FROM THE RIGHT
Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
Edited by MATTHEW L. HARRIS The controversial life of a Mormon leader “Thunder From the Right is an outstanding book by an excellent group of scholars who have written a collection of essays that will amaze, fascinate, inform and probably trouble you.” —ASSOCIATION OF MORMON LETTERS Ezra Taft Benson’s ultra-conservative vision made him one of the most polarizing leaders in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His willingness to mix religion with extreme right-wing politics troubled many. Yet his fierce defense of the traditional family, unabashed love of country, and deep knowledge of the faith endeared him to millions. 260 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 7 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
In Thunder from the Right, a group of veteran Mormon scholars probes aspects of Benson’s extraordinary life. Topics include how Benson’s views influenced his actions as Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration; his dedication to the conservative movement, from alliances with Barry Goldwater and the John Birch Society to his condemnation of the civil rights movement as a communist front; how his concept of the principle of free agency became central to Mormon theology; and the events and implications of Benson’s term as Church president.
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MATTHEW L. HARRIS is a professor of history at Colorado State UniversityPueblo. He is the author of The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America.
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White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning Second Edition
RICHARD T. HUGHES Foreword by Robert N. Bellah New Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante Confronting and undoing the dark side of American identity “Fresh and stunning.” —CHRISTIAN CENTURY
“For those of us who struggle to understand the racially charged polarities of today as well as the highs and lows of our American past, this book paints a heartbreaking, damning, and intimately clear picture.” —CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 280 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 3 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation’s promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
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In this revised second edition of his celebrated work, Richard T. Hughes delves anew into the thought of black critics dissatisfied with America’s betrayal of its foundational beliefs. Speaking for people often marginalized in American life, thinkers like Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yolanda Pierce, Carol Anderson, Charles Blow, Toni Morrison, and Martin Luther King Jr. offer important perspectives on African American experiences, the pervasiveness of white supremacy, and the ways America can embrace, and deliver on, its egalitarian promise. Hughes’s updated text and new introduction investigate past and present intersections of white supremacy with our shared American mythology.
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RICHARD T. HUGHES is a professor emeritus at both Pepperdine University and Messiah College. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than a dozen books including Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630–1875 and Christian America and the Kingdom of God.
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN PALESTINE
Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
SOPHIE RICHTER-DEVROE A sobering yet hopeful view of the ongoing struggle in Palestine “Richter-Devroe’s book navigates many complex trajectories and dispels the notion of understanding the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle from a Western liberal viewpoint.” —MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
“A narrative that is rich with fresh insights and enlightening anecdotes and affords a cluster of new solutions to old problems.” —SOUTHASIA MAGAZINE 224 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES
During the last twenty years, Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism. Sophie Richter-Devroe reflects on their struggles to bring about social and political change.
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Richter-Devroe’s ethnographic approach draws from revealing in-depth interviews and participant observation in Palestine. The result: a forceful critique of mainstream conflict resolution methods and the failed woman-to-woman peacebuilding projects so lauded around the world. The liberal faith in dialogue as core of “the political” and the assumption that women’s “nurturing” nature makes them superior peacemakers collapse in the face of past and ongoing Israeli state violences.
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Winner of the National Women’s Studies Association / University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
Instead, women confront Israeli settler colonialism directly and indirectly in their popular and everyday acts of resistance. Richter-Devroe’s analysis zooms in on the intricate dynamics of daily life in Palestine, tracing the emergent politics that women articulate and practice there. In shedding light on contemporary gendered “politics from below” in the region, the book invites a rethinking of the workings, shapes, and boundaries of the political. SOPHIE RICHTER-DEVROE is an associate professor of politics and international relations at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and an honorary fellow at the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter. She is the coeditor of Gender, Governance, and International Security.
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RETURN TO THE CITY OF JOSEPH
Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo
SCOTT C. ESPLIN The Midwest’s Mormon Mecca and the question of “Whose Nauvoo?” “The book’s great strength is Esplin’s ability to consistently situate his research within the broader scholarship of tourism and heritage studies, cultural studies (especially work focused on memory and commemoration), and the American Midwest. By doing so, the author demonstrates that the history of the Mormon faith is indeed uniquely American in its orientation.” —ANNALS OF IOWA 216 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 21 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people. Yet Nauvoo’s dramatic restoration proved fraught with conflicts.
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Scott C. Esplin’s social history looks at how Nauvoo’s different groups have sparred over heritage and historical memory. The Latter-day Saint project brought it into conflict with the Community of Christ, the midwestern branch of Mormonism that had kept a foothold in the town and a claim on its Smith-related sites. NonMormon locals, meanwhile, sought to maintain the historic place of ancestors who had settled in Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints’ departure. Examining the recent and present-day struggles to define the town, Esplin probes the values of the local groups while placing Nauvoo at the center of Mormonism’s attempt to carve a role for itself within the greater narrative of American history.
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SCOTT C. ESPLIN is a professor of religious education at Brigham Young University and a coeditor of Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail.
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TRANSFORMING WOMEN’S EDUCATION
Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries
JEWEL A. SMITH Groundbreaking schools at the forefront of musical and educational change “Jewel Smith has brilliantly illuminated an era in American educational history that was hitherto shrouded in darkness. Her assiduous research demonstrates the vital role played by female academies in the development of American democratic society and confirms the crucial place of music in these institutions.” —E. DOUGLAS BOMBERGER, author of Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture Female seminaries in the nineteenth-century United States offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background, in particular, provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women.
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Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women’s musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement.
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An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women’s Education illuminates how musical training added to women’s lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.
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JEWEL A. SMITH is the author of Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem Pennsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary.
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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN HONEY MECONI Rediscovering the genius of the medieval composer, theologian, and visionary “Meconi offers fresh insight into one of the most creative composers of her time.” —WXXI
“Meconi does an excellent job of showing that Hildegard’s chants are linked to late medieval repertory but are also distinctive and idiosyncratic. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) corresponded with Europe’s elite, founded and led a noted women’s religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history. Yet we know her best as Western music’s most accomplished early composer, responsible for a wealth of musical creations for her fellow monastics.
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Honey Meconi draws on her own experience as a scholar and performer of Hildegard’s music to explore the life and work of this foundational figure. Combining historical detail with musical analysis, Meconi delves into Hildegard’s mastery of plainchant, her innovative musical drama, and her voluminous writings. Hildegard’s distinctive musical style still excites modern listeners through wide-ranging, sinuous melodies set to her own evocative poetry. Together with her passionate religious texts, her music reveals a holistic understanding of the medieval world still relevant to today’s readers.
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HONEY MECONI is chair and a professor of music in the College Music Department and a professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Her many books include Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court.
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REFORMATION OF THE SENSES
The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany
JACOB M. BAUM The triumph of sensual worship after the Protestant Reformation “Based on a broad array of sources, the author illuminates vital aspects of sensory culture—norms, ritual practices, beliefs, intellectual assumptions, and lived experiences. His conclusions offer a probing critique and correction of traditional theories about the nature and impact of the German Reformation.” —WIETSE DE BOER, coeditor of Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe We see the Protestant Reformation as the dawn of an austere, intellectual Christianity that uprooted a ritualized religion steeped in stimulating the senses— and by extension the faith—of its flock. Historians continue to use the idea as a potent framing device in presenting not just the history of Christianity but the origins of European modernity.
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Jacob M. Baum plumbs a wealth of primary source material from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to offer the first systematic study of the senses within the religious landscape of the German Reformation. Concentrating on urban Protestants, Baum details the engagement of Lutheran and Calvinist thought with traditional ritual practices. His surprising discovery: Reformation-era Germans echoed and even amplified medieval sensory practices. Yet Protestant intellectuals simultaneously cultivated the idea that the senses had no place in true religion. Exploring this paradox, Baum illuminates the sensory experience of religion and daily life at a crucial historical crossroads.
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Provocative and rich in new research, Reformation of the Senses reevaluates one of modern Christianity’s most enduring myths. JACOB M. BAUM is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University.
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SPIRITUALS AND THE BIRTH OF A BLACK ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY SANDRA JEAN GRAHAM Showbiz shaping sacred song’s success “A pleasure to read, the book weaves meticulous research into an engaging narrative that vividly enriches understanding of postbellum American music and theater. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE
“[A] one-of-a-kind title . . . Many volumes address spirituals themselves, but few detail the actual exponents of this important African American tradition in such a refreshingly disarming way.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL 360 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 22 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 CHARTS, 38 MUSIC EXAMPLES, 5 TABLES, 3 FIGURES
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post–Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies.
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In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual’s journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they laid the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century.
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SANDRA JEAN GRAHAM is an associate professor of music at Babson College.
Publication of this book is supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by the Babson Faculty Research Fund.
A Choice Outstanding Title, 2018 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society, 2019
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QUAKERS AND ABOLITION Edited by BRYCCHAN CAREY and GEOFFREY PLANK The controversies that roiled the Quaker antislavery movement “This book . . .puts on the table numerous richly detailed pieces of the puzzle that is Quakers’ antislavery. The essays are a pleasure to read, both individually and as a group, and they are indicative of the exciting directions in which scholarship at the intersection of Quaker and abolitionist historiography might be headed.” —CIVIL WAR BOOK REVIEW Considered a monolith of abolitionist belief, Quakers in fact often disagreed with each other and the larger movement on slavery. Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank curate fifteen essays examining the diverse body of opinion on the issue within the international Friends community in the United States, Great Britain, and France. The contributors go back to 1658 and as far forward as 1890 to offer nuanced takes on topics like Quaker missions in Barbados; one Quaker’s transatlantic correspondence with a freed slave who returned to Africa as a Liberian colonist; and the impact of Quaker-authored frontier literature.
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Accessible and provocative, Quakers and Abolition offers readers new insights on this key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history.
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Contributors include Dee E. Andrews, Kristen Block, Brycchan Carey, Christopher Densmore, Andrew Diemer, J. William Frost, Thomas D. Hamm, Nancy A. Hewitt, Maurice Jackson, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash, Geoffrey Plank, Ellen M. Ross, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, James Emmett Ryan, and James Walvin. BRYCCHAN CAREY is a professor of English at Northumbria University and the author of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761. GEOFFREY PLANK is a professor of early modern history at the University of East Anglia and the author of John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire.
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