This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking volume exploring how sacred music effects religious and social transitions. It covers Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe. Rich in ethnographic and historical detail and theoretically ambitious, Resounding Transcendence is essential to the study of music and religion.

In a new edition, the history of a regional record company and the blues, gospel, and R&B greats it launched nationally

"This is the first book since the 1930s to study this important and little-remembered phenomenon of American folk culture. The author interviewed a large number of older Americans, both black and white, who performed play parties as young adults. A songbook of ninety musical examples and lyrics completes the picture of this vanished tradition."--Jacket.

Norumbega Harmony is a Boston-area musical community that has been a leading force in the revival of the American singing-school tradition. Designed for church musicians and music educators as well as for traditional singers.