A pioneering study of the Shaker west's opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities, Carol Medlicott and Christian Goodwillie reconstruct a vast repository of early Shaker hymns, using them to uncover the dramatic history of Shakerism's bold expansion to the frontier. With newly discovered tunes for more than one hundred Shaker...
A pioneering study of the Shaker west's opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal <...