Amazing Grace at 250
Global Heritage and Contested Legacies
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About this book
This book focuses on arguably the best-known Christian hymn worldwide. From the slave trade to the civil rights movement and from obscurity in its country of origin to global recognition, the origins, history, influence, and legacy of "Amazing Grace" are uniquely complex. The volume brings together historians, theologians, literary scholars, and musicologists to shed new light on the ways in which the hymn's lyrics, familiar musical setting and its performance by leading vocalists contribute to its enduring popularity and the meanings and value ascribed to it by diverse communities across time and place. The chapters explore the literary and religious qualities of the text, its relationship with the ubiquitous NEW BRITAIN melody, its adoption and adaptation by famous singers and in Christian churches from South America to Asia. The contributors highlight significant facets of the hymn's origins and legacy, while the collection as a whole provides a focused emphasis on the importance of historical, literary, theological, and musical approaches in understanding the ways in which Christian congregational music acquires meaning and influences thought and practice in local and global contexts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Faithās Review and Expectation
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Global Heritage
- 1 The Enduring Textual Power of āAmazing Graceā: John Newtonās Hymn as Exemplary Devotional Verse
- 2 What is so Amazing about Grace?: āAmazing Graceā in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody
- 3 Awaiting Grace: A Hymn Comes Home
- 4 From āAmazing Graceā to āPreciosa GraƧaā: Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn
- 5 āAmazing Graceā and New Britain Beyond the Anglophone World: German Paraphrases and New Texts, 1971ā2023
- 6 Recontextualizing āAmazing Graceā in Hong Kong: Its Social and Pastoral Meanings
- Part II Music and Musicians
- 7 āHow Sweet the Soundā: āAmazing Graceā and the Eventual Ubiquity of New Britain
- 8 āAmazing Grace,ā Aretha, and the Transcendent
- 9 Retuning āAmazing Graceā
- 10 Amazing Affordances: Revealing the Idiomaticity of the Harmonica through a Classic Hymn
- Part III Contested Legacies
- 11 āNow I Seeā: Discussing Blindness in Hymnody
- 12 āAmazing Graceā for Lawyers: Lessons from the First 250 Years
- 13 Through Many Dangers: āAmazing Graceā as an Act of Congregational Care during Crisis
- 14 āAmazing Graceā in Virtual Space: Two Pandemic Performances on YouTube
- 15 The Making of Forever?: A Poetās Practice-Steeped Reflection
- Index