Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch by Daniel Jay Grimminger - 9781580463836

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania DutchAuthor(s): Daniel Jay Grimminger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580463836, 978-1580463836\nSynopsis\nSheds light on the process of cultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches.\n\nThe Pennsylvania Dutch comprised the largest single ethnic group in the early American Republic of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet like other ethnic minorities in early America, they struggled to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity in everything that they did. Eventually their German Lutheran and Reformed customs and folkways gave way to Anglo-American pressure. The tune and chorale books printed for use in Pennsylvania Dutch churches document this gradual process of Americanization, including notable moments of resistance to change. \n\n Daniel Grimminger's Sacr.