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Baptist Offspring, Southern Midwife--Jesse Mercer's Cluster of Spiritual Songs (1810): A Study in American Hymnody. By Kay Norton. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, 34.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2002. [xxiii, 202 p. ISBN 0899-90109-3. $47.50.] Music examples, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, indexes.
Jesse Mercer's hymnal The Cluster of Spiritual Songs was the most important hymn collection in the lower South from 1800 to 1835. Through its longevity--it passed through eleven editions--and its combination of classic English Evangelical hymns with rough-hewn American spiritual ballads and revival songs, Mercer's Cluster became ...
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