| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans. By David W. Stowe. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii, 335 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01290-9.)

Recent decades have seen a greater emphasis on the importance of religion in the lives of Americans and the nation they built. Accordingly, historians have begun to pay more serious attention to the place of religious music. This book by David W. Stowe offers a wide-ranging treatment of the variety of religious music that has characterized the religious expression of generations of American believers, chronicling the evolution and popularity of this music in groups as diverse as the Shakers and American Buddhists. In the tradition of Stephen A. Marini's Sacred Song in America (2003), How Sweet the Sound seeks to give a glimpse into the song development of religious communities large and small. As such, it registers a rather eclectic mix of musical sound—which is precisely what the American landscape has produced.

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