This volume brings together historians, theologians, literary scholars and musicologists to shed new light on the ways in which Amazing Grace's lyrics, familiar musical setting and performance by leading vocalists contribute to its enduring popularity and the meanings and value ascribed to it by diverse communities across time and place.
This volume brings together historians, theologians, literary scholars and musicologists to shed new light on the ways in which Amazing Grace's lyrics, familiar musical setting and performance by leading vocalists contribute to its enduring popularity and the meanings and value ascribed to it by diverse communities across time and place.
Martin V. Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK. Gareth Atkins is Fellow, Tutor, and Director of Studies in History at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Faith's Review and Expectation Foreword Introduction Part One: Global Heritage 1. The Enduring Textual Power of Amazing Grace": John Newton's Hymn as Exemplary Devotional Verse 2. What is so Amazing about Grace? "Amazing Grace" in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody 3. Awaiting Grace: A Hymn Comes Home 4. From "Amazing Grace" to "Preciosa Graça": Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn 5. "Amazing Grace" and New Britain Beyond the Anglophone World: German Paraphrases and New Texts, 1971-2023 6. Recontextualizing "Amazing Grace" in Hong Kong: Its Social and Pastoral Meanings Part Two: Music and Musicians 7. "How Sweet the Sound": "Amazing Grace" and the Eventual Ubiquity of New Britain 8. "Amazing Grace," Aretha and the Transcendent 9. Retuning "Amazing Grace" 10. Amazing Affordances: Revealing the idiomaticity of the harmonica through a classic hymn Part Three: Contested Legacies 11. "Now I See:" Discussing blindness in hymnody 12. "Amazing Grace" for Lawyers: lessons from the first 250 years 13. Through many dangers: "Amazing Grace" as an act of congregational care during crisis 14. "Amazing Grace" in Virtual Space: Two Pandemic Performances on YouTube 15. The Making of Forever? A Poet's Practice-Steeped Reflection
Faith's Review and Expectation Foreword Introduction Part One: Global Heritage 1. The Enduring Textual Power of Amazing Grace": John Newton's Hymn as Exemplary Devotional Verse 2. What is so Amazing about Grace? "Amazing Grace" in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody 3. Awaiting Grace: A Hymn Comes Home 4. From "Amazing Grace" to "Preciosa Graça": Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn 5. "Amazing Grace" and New Britain Beyond the Anglophone World: German Paraphrases and New Texts, 1971-2023 6. Recontextualizing "Amazing Grace" in Hong Kong: Its Social and Pastoral Meanings Part Two: Music and Musicians 7. "How Sweet the Sound": "Amazing Grace" and the Eventual Ubiquity of New Britain 8. "Amazing Grace," Aretha and the Transcendent 9. Retuning "Amazing Grace" 10. Amazing Affordances: Revealing the idiomaticity of the harmonica through a classic hymn Part Three: Contested Legacies 11. "Now I See:" Discussing blindness in hymnody 12. "Amazing Grace" for Lawyers: lessons from the first 250 years 13. Through many dangers: "Amazing Grace" as an act of congregational care during crisis 14. "Amazing Grace" in Virtual Space: Two Pandemic Performances on YouTube 15. The Making of Forever? A Poet's Practice-Steeped Reflection
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