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Patterns In The Sacred Music Culture Of The American South And West (1700-1820), Nikos A. Pappas
Patterns In The Sacred Music Culture Of The American South And West (1700-1820), Nikos A. Pappas
Theses and Dissertations--Music
This narrative chronicles the dissemination of sacred music from the eastern seaboard to the West and South spanning a time frame from the colonial era to the latter part of the Early Nationalist Period (1700-1820). Musical culture in its migration away from the eastern seaboard also parallels the greater western and southern expansion of the United States from its initial configuration of localized regional subgroups to the beginnings of a larger national identity. From this conceptual base, sacred music becomes a vehicle for understanding not only religious and musical changes over time, but also the broader maturity of a nation. …