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The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious
communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence
on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three
volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of
those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The first biography of a key and complex American religious figure
of the nineteenth century, considered by many to be the "father of
Shaker literature." Richard McNemar (1770–1839) led a remarkable
life, replete with twists and turns that influenced American
religions in many ways during the early nineteenth century.
Beginning as a Presbyterian minister in the Midwest, he took his
preaching and the practice of his congregation in a radically
different, evangelical "free will" direction during the Kentucky
Revival. A cornerstone of his New Light church in Ohio was
spontaneous physical movement and exhortations. After Shaker
missionaries arrived, McNemar converted and soon played a prominent
role in expanding and raising public awareness of their religion by
founding Shaker communities in the Midwest, becoming the first
Shaker published author and the most prolific composer of Shaker
hymns. Split between two opposing religious traditions—an
evangelical movement attracting tens of thousands and Shakerism,
which drew only hundreds to its villages—Richard McNemar's life
poses a challenge for any biographer. Christian Goodwillie's
mastery of the archival records surrounding McNemar and the Shakers
allows him to tell McNemar's story in a way that fully captures the
complexity of the man and the scope of his enduring legacy in
American religious history.
The first biography of a key and complex American religious figure
of the nineteenth century, considered by many to be the "father of
Shaker literature." Richard McNemar (1770–1839) led a remarkable
life, replete with twists and turns that influenced American
religions in many ways during the early nineteenth century.
Beginning as a Presbyterian minister in the Midwest, he took his
preaching and the practice of his congregation in a radically
different, evangelical "free will" direction during the Kentucky
Revival. A cornerstone of his New Light church in Ohio was
spontaneous physical movement and exhortations. After Shaker
missionaries arrived, McNemar converted and soon played a prominent
role in expanding and raising public awareness of their religion by
founding Shaker communities in the Midwest, becoming the first
Shaker published author and the most prolific composer of Shaker
hymns. Split between two opposing religious traditions—an
evangelical movement attracting tens of thousands and Shakerism,
which drew only hundreds to its villages—Richard McNemar's life
poses a challenge for any biographer. Christian Goodwillie's
mastery of the archival records surrounding McNemar and the Shakers
allows him to tell McNemar's story in a way that fully captures the
complexity of the man and the scope of his enduring legacy in
American religious history.
A pioneering study of the Shaker west's opening generation and an
analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal The
arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the
decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities, Carol
Medlicott and Christian Goodwillie reconstruct a vast repository of
early Shaker hymns, using them to uncover the dramatic history of
Shakerism's bold expansion to the frontier. With newly discovered
tunes for more than one hundred Shaker hymns, this volume
illuminates a little-known dimension of American folk hymnody.
Richard McNemar's blended passions of printing, theology, and hymn
writing were well suited to the needs of the new western Shaker
enterprise. The abundance of rich spiritual and doctrinal hymns
circulated by McNemar throughout the Shaker world literally gave
voice to a generation of Shakers. In the early 1830s, he
established a printing press at the Shaker settlement of Watervliet
on the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio. There, in collaboration with
other Shaker musicians and leaders, McNemar produced the first
printed hymnal of the Shaker west. McNemar's hymnal appeared at a
crucial juncture in Shaker history. The Shaker west was a full
generation old, and in several communities the transition to
younger leaders was a struggle. Shaker spirituality and worship
patterns were changing fast during the decade. Shaker music itself
was quickly evolving in the 1830s, with the onset of new song
styles and the formalization of a distinctive music notation
method. Medlicott and Goodwillie paint a rich picture of the Shaker
west during its most dynamic years. They probe the hymn texts and
use them to illuminate the dramatic events of the Shaker west from
its founding through the 1830s. They analyze the collection of
hymns and hymn tunes in light of the development of Shaker hymnody
by the 1830s and of American folk hymnody in general. A series of
carefully researched commentaries is presented alongside the score
for each hymn, serving to contextualize them individually. One
learns of the hymn's history, its authorship, and its use among the
Shakers, making this exploration an invaluable reference for music
historians, students of Shaker history, and students of Ohio
cultural history.
From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part
of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the
United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Yet until
the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs were wordless
- expressed in unknown tongues or as enthusiastic vocalizations.
Only when Shaker missionaries moved west into Ohio and Kentucky did
they begin composing hymn texts, chiefly as a means of conveying
the sect's unconventional religious ideas to new converts.In
1812-13, the Shakers published their first hymnal. This venture,
titled ""Millennial Praises"", included the texts without music for
one hundred and forty hymns and elucidated the radical and feminist
theology of the Shakers, neatly distilled in verse. This scholarly
edition of the hymnal joins the texts to original Shaker tunes for
the first time. One hundred and twenty-six of the tunes preserved
in the Society's manuscript humnals have been transcribed from
Shaker musical notation into modern standard notation, thus opening
this important religious and folk repertoire to modern scholars.
Many texts are presented with a wide range of variant tunes from
Shaker communities in New England, New York, Ohio, and
Kentucky.Introductory essays by volume editors Christian Goodwillie
and Jane F. Crosthwaite place ""Millennial Praises"" in the context
of Shaker history and offer a thorough explication of the Society's
theology. They track the use of the hymnal from the point of
publication up to the present day, beginning with the use of the
hymns by both Shaker missionaries and anti-Shaker apostates and
ending with the current use of the hymns by the last remaining
Shaker family at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.The volume includes a CD of
historical recordings of six Shaker songs by Brother Ricardo
Belden, the last member of the Society at Hancock Shaker Village.
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