A Nation of Singing Birds

Sermon and Song in Wales and Among the Welsh America

A Nation of Singing Birds
Ronald Rees
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Paperback
h215 x 140mm - 240pg
12 Mar 2021 UK
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9781912631292
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The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination and spread via Welsh emigrants to the religious communities of the USA. -- Welsh Books Council
The Welsh love of song, and hymns in particular, is legendary perhaps no other nation has sung them with such fervour. This is a comprehensive history of hymn writing and singing in Wales and amongst the Welsh diaspora in North America, from the days of the Protestant Revivals to the multitude of Welsh Male Voice Choirs across the globe today. It considers the influence of key figures such as William Williams Pantycelyn and Ira Sankey and also looks at Welsh preaching, the mesmerising, musical style of which can be heard in the voices of famous speakers from Dylan Thomas to Martin Luther King Jr. Painstakingly researched in libraries and archives in both Wales and America, including information from emigrant letters and diaries and local newspapers of the period, this is the definitive history of the Welsh love of hymn-singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the imagination and spread via Welsh emigrants to the religious communities of the USA. -- Y Lolfa
Ronald Rees is the author of 15 previous books, for both academic and commercial presses, and lives in the historic town of St Andrews in Canada. Originally from south Wales, he taught at Saskatchewan and Mount Allison universities before becoming a full-time writer. His book ' King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895' won the Glamorgan Historical Society' s Millennium History Prize.
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ISBN-13: 9781912631292
Published: 12 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Y Lolfa
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Format: Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 240

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