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Book Review
| Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America. Ed. by Mark A. Noll and Edith L. Blumhofer. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xx, 260 pp. Cloth, $63.00, ISBN 978–0-8173–1505–4. Paper, $32.50, ISBN 978–0-8173–5292–9.)
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| This collection is the latest in a modest flurry of scholarship that tackles the relationship between music, religion, and American culture. Two years ago its editors, Mark A. Noll and Edith L. Blumhofer—who directed a major research project on hymns at Wheaton College's Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals—published a companion volume titled Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land (2004). With the exception of one chapter, this new volume focuses on Anglo-Protestant hymnody, mainly of the nineteenth century. |
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