For students and scholars in American music and religious studies, as well as for church musicians, this book is the first to study the ways in which music shap

Stowe traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters have produce

Enslaved Africans brought their music and religion with them to America. They adapted their spiritual worldview into the existing Christian framework for surviv

How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches.

Sylvan examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today