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“It Is Music That Lifts Us Up from the Earth at the Very Moment of Death”: On the Transcendence of the Popular

Editor's Note: This essay is the final installment in our six-part series on religion and popular music. The previous issues were "The Broken Grace of Leonard Cohen" by Paul DeCamp (April 13); "Being Hip-Hop, Being Job, and Being" by Julian DeShazier...

September 14, 2017

Music in American Religious Experience — Philip V. Bohlman

Sacred music sounds the landscapes of America, and it resounds American history. It marks place and time, and in so doing it realizes the very mobility with which Americans move across time and place. Sacred music is for many Americans the sound of t...

January 17, 2008