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Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America elucidates how the performing arts have played a seminal role in the cultural mission of the Society of Jesus. Drawing on unpublished archival documents, music, and dramatic texts performed in Italy and North America over the last four centuries, the volume features the work of leading scholars in Italy and the United States and offers a broad view of the Jesuits' influence on musical and theatrical practice. Part I of this volume contains detailed explorations of the Jesuits' performing arts activities in Milan and within the Kingdom of Naples in the 17th and 18th centuries. Part II moves away from the discussion of Italy to explore the various models of performance and pedagogy used by Jesuits in the New World. As this volume demonstrates, music was an important part of what the Jesuits called "our way of proceeding" (noster modus procedendi). As preachers, teachers, scholars, and missionaries, they connected with the outside world and spread the Word of God through music. Numerous scholars have documented the considerable history of the Jesuit commitment to the cultivation of music and closely

Author

Anthony DelDonna, Anna Harwell Celenza

Publisher

Saint Joseph's University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780916101800

Subjects

Music, History, Arts