Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America
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- Book
- Year:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- Saint Joseph's University Press
- Place published:
- Philadelphia
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- Abstract:
Building on previous scholarship in the field of musicology and Jesuit studies, this volume of collected essays explores myriad ways in which music, theater, and scholarship played a role in what John O'Malley, S.J., has defined as the Jesuit cultural mission. The various narratives in this book begin at least a century after the foundation of the Society of Jesus and explore the various ways in which music and theater functioned within the Jesuits' educational and evangelical vocation. As preachers, teachers, scholars, and missionaries, the Jesuits connected with the outside world and spread the Word of God through music, which thus became an important part of what they called "our way of proceeding." In Pursuit of a Cultural Mission is divided into two parts: Part I offers detailed explorations of the rapport between the Society of Jesus and Italian artistic culture during the 17th and 18th centuries, while Part II moves away from the discussion of Italy and explores the various ways Jesuits created models of performance as artists, scholars, missionaries, and pedagogues in North America.
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- Number of Pages:
- 229
- ISBN:
- 97809161018000916101800