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As the landscape of choral education changes - disrupted by Glee,
YouTube, and increasingly cheap audio production software -
teachers of choral conducting need current research in the field
that charts scholarly paths through contemporary debates and sets
an agenda for new critical thought and practice. Where, in the
digitizing world, is the field of choral pedagogy moving? Editor
Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head, both experienced choral conductors
and teachers, offer here a comprehensive handbook of
newly-commissioned chapters that provide key scholarly-critical
perspectives on teaching and learning in the field of choral music,
written by academic scholars and researchers in tandem with active
choral conductors. As chapters in this book demonstrate, choral
pedagogy encompasses everything from conductors' gestures to the
administrative management of the choir. The contributors to The
Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy address the full range of issues
in contemporary choral pedagogy, from repertoire to voice science
to the social and political aspects of choral singing. They also
cover the construction of a choral singer's personal identity, the
gendering of choral ensembles, social justice in choral education,
and the role of the choral art in society more generally. Included
scholarship focuses on both the United States and international
perspectives in five sections that address traditional paradigms of
the field and challenges to them; critical case studies on teaching
and conducting specific populations (such as international, school,
or barbershop choirs); the pedagogical functions of repertoire;
teaching as a way to construct identity; and new scholarly
methodologies in pedagogy and the voice.
The first part of Nicaea and its Legacy offers a narrative of the
fourth-century trinitarian controversy. It does not assume that the
controversy begins with Arius, but with tensions among existing
theological strategies. Lewis Ayres argues that, just as we cannot
speak of one `Arian' theology, so we cannot speak of one `Nicene'
theology either, in 325 or in 381. The second part of the book
offers an account of the theological practices and assumptions
within which pro-Nicene theologians assumed their short formulae
and creeds were to be understood. Ayres also argues that there is
no fundamental division between eastern and western trinitarian
theologies at the end of the fourth century. The last section of
the book challenges modern post-Hegelian trinitarian theology to
engage with Nicaea more deeply.
A "contemplative" ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in
Vermont known for its folk-inspired music. Far from being a
long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is
instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in
religious life. Benedictine monks gather for communal prayer
upwards of five times per day, every day. Their prayers, called the
Divine Office, are almost entirely sung. Benedictines are famous
for Gregorian Chant, but the original folk-inspired music of the
monks of Weston Priory in Vermont is among the most familiar in
post-Vatican II American Catholicism. Using the ethnomusicological
methods of fieldwork and taking inspiration from the monks' own way
of encountering the world, this book offers a contemplative
engagement with music, prayer, and everyday life. The rich
narrative evokes the rhythms of learning among Benedictines to show
how monastic ways of being, knowing, and musicking resonate with
humanistic inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson
Institute for American Music of the Eastman School of Music at the
University of Rochester.
Now with a new cover! This book offers the inspiring true stories
behind 101 of your favorite hymns. It is excellent for devotional
reading, sermon illustrations, and bulletin inserts, as well as for
historical or biographical research.
The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black
gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped
that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging
American pop music genres from Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop to
Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, and Hip-Hop. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie
Hummingbirds shows how, in a career spanning more than nine
decades, they pointed the way from pure a cappella harmony to
guitar-driven soul to pop-stardom crossover, collaborating with
artists like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon along the way. Drawing on
interviews with founding and quintessential members as well as many
of the pop luminaries influenced by the Hummingbirds, author Jerry
Zolten tells their story from rising up and out of the segregated
South in the twenties and thirties to success on Philadelphia radio
and the New York City stage in the forties to grueling tours in the
fifties and over the long haul a brilliant recording career that
carried well over into the 21st century. The story of the Dixie
Hummingbirds is a tale of determined young men who navigated the
troubled waters of racial division and the cutthroat business of
music on the strength of raw talent, vision, character, and
perseverance, and made an indelible name for themselves in American
cultural history. This heavily edited 2nd edition features brand
new photographs, expanded historical context, and a full new
chapter on the Hummigbirds' trajectory up to the 21st century.
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