The Cashaway psalmody : transatlantic religion and music in colonial Carolina / Stephen A. Marini.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The Cashaway Psalmody, created by Durham Hills in the late 18th century, is one of the oldest surviving sacred music manuscripts and the only professional tunebook preserved from the entire colonial South. Re-discovered in pristine condition by Marini almost a decade ago, this is an important new source for understanding the religious culture of the Lower South during late colonial and revolutionary times. It illuminates the practice of ritual song in that important region and embodies complex processes of transatlantic social, economic, cultural, and religious development in the eighteen-century Anglo-American world. Marini's project is a microhistory of the Psalmody, one that uncovers the lives of its creator and its patrons; its musical, literary, and religious origins in England; its contexts and communities of use in colonial Carolina; and its significance for understanding how transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing created new religious identities in 18th c. America. The first part of the book treats Hills's early years in Newcastle-upon-Tyne: his urban environment, family, education, religious contexts, and exile in 1752. The second part moves to Carolina and Hills's career as a scrivener, militia clerk, tutor, and Anglican parish clerk intertwined with the stories of the Welsh Baptist congregations on the Great Pee Dee River, their ministers Evan Pugh and Nicholas Bedgegood, and Hills's singing school at Cashaway Neck Regular Baptist church. The third part examines The Cashaway Psalmody as a manuscript object, an example of the tunebook genre, an expression of Hills's musical theory and practice, and a repertory of tunes and texts shaped by his musical background and training, editorial principles, and theological agenda for psalmody in the Cheraws. The book concludes with an epilogue that narrates the destinies of the many characters in this braided story and offers a summary assessment of The Cashaway Psalmody and its meaning. Through this microhistory of meticulous precision, Marini forges a study of broad interdisciplinary scope-a rare synthesizing perspective on the musical, religious, commercial, and educational cultures of the 18th c. colonies"-- Provided by publisher.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020).

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Gift -- Part I. Newcastle upon Tyne -- 1 All Saints -- 2 "A Schoolmaster in Sandgate" -- 3 Religious Newcastle -- 4 Trial and Transportation -- Part II. The Cheraws -- 5 Cheraw Hill -- 6 Itinerant Anglicans and Literary Evangelicals -- 7 The Welsh Tract Baptists -- 8 Ministers and Missions -- 9 Saint David's -- 10 To the Cashaway Neck Singing School -- Part III. The Cashaway Psalmody -- 11 A Country Psalmody Tunebook -- 12 Musical Theology, Theory, and Practice -- 13 Common Tunes -- 14 Particular Psalms

15 Occasional Hymns I: Festival Hymns -- 16 Occasional Hymns II: A Saint's Life -- Part IV. After Cashaway -- 17 Beginnings and Endings -- Epilogue Retrospect and Prospect -- Appendix A The Durham Family Genealogy -- Appendix B The Hills Family Genealogy -- Appendix C The Religious, Cultural, and Familial Networks of The Cashaway Psalmody -- Appendix D Census of Tunes and Texts in The Cashaway Psalmody -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Tunes and First Lines -- Back Cover

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide